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David / Tim – Now I understand what you mean by a wealth of detail and child boards. A very well thought out site, hadn’t never seen all this before.
Peter – would recommend that you take a good look, as and when you have some time free, the AMOC site is impressive and very busy…
Well spotted, hadn’t noticed how they had fitted the seat-belt bolts right throught the B-posts. I fully agree with you, that i don’t think this was done at the factory.
More importantly, excellent link and have been in touch with these people, and will get them to fit period style front reel inertia belts as well and also put in rear belts, very nice quality work.
Removing my original seat belts today, and will take plenty of pictures.
Thank you very much for this, had tried a few people already and this company is close to us, so even better !
David – I don’t understand the logic here, the Alvis started as a saloon and was rebodied as a tourer, so why did this sell so well ?.
“It started life as a 1937 Alvis Speed 25SB Charlesworth Speed Saloon, but was rebodied as a lightweight competition machine and used for racing in the mid ?60s. The current, very elegant Vanden Plas-style suit of clothes was acquired in the ?90s at the hands of Simon Isles of Pott Shrigley.”
The LG45, a vastly superior car, was always a tourer and has been restored nicely.
Am I missing something ?
Does your car also have the illuminated bezel to the cigar lighter, may I presume that it is also not working ?
A useful item ot get working, since so much can run off this input.
Thansk for the kind words. Believe me, when we both fianlly get back to the point of reassembly, we will need all the notes and pictures we can find!
The front seat belts appear to be 100% original, as you say with carpets cut and trimmed to fit around them.
Given the difficulties of finding suitable places to locate anchor points, especially on the B post, these were imho done at the factory.
Where did you see pictures of 125, seat-belt location or have you had the opportunity to see it close up ?
I remember a little while ago that you emailed an article about fitting seat belts in the back, can you please post the link on here,, my young gentlemen will both require belts in the back….
Can you please post a picture of your choke control.
I hadn’t realized until the owner of 117 mentioned it, there was so much variety in tjhe position of the choke control and also style of the unit.
More pictures, now with front seats removed, and lots of space to work inside the car, and the floor becoming less cluttered.
Front seats taken apart and removed the hinge linkage.
Four bolts hold the front seat onto the chrome tracks, took a fair bit of WD40 and brute strength on the end of a screw-driver, all thankfully removed
All bolts labelled and photographed already.
The carpets will be used as basis to make replacements, all snail chewed, but good enough condition thankfully.
I also plan to replace all the felt underlay with modern replacement material.
Alistair hi,
This part of the forum needs a good dose of life being injected into it, from owners of all pre-war cars. Please do contribute, since Peter has made a fabulous job and spent a lot of time setting it up, for all of our benefit. The more information, pictures and discussion, the more useful this forum becomes for everyone.
Well the auctioneers, certainly confused me, and made the car sound far more interesting of course. All part of the tricks of the trade of course, normally the less said the better for them, Caveat Emptor as always.
I liked the look of the car and the wheels, but then again, I am very partial to the LG45 and would love to find an affordable one. I have space for one more car, and this would be No 1 on my list in either saloon or tourer form, prefarably in un-restored condition, unless the price was so favourable…
This car which went under the hammer on the 24th with an estimate of 80-100 k did not sell.
http://www.classic-auctions.com/…headCoupe-34772.aspx
Did anyone see the car and would care to comment on it ??
126 – has an illuminated bezel to the base of the cigar lighter. Not working of courser
Clearly, very heavy use indeed, since the smoke stained the headlining and a thin film all over the leatherwork as well.
Back seat out and a mountain of long dead snails, they did a job on the carpet, but thankfully left the leather alone.
The rear bench seat, lifts out easily, in very nice condition.
Two front seat upright section removed.
I must remember who was that man who told me….”The front seat tracks have machine head screws in place, they will come out in a jiffy”..
Well 1 out of 4 came out easily, the other 3 have been WD40’d and will try again tomorrow, or will use a crow bar if needed.
The front seat runners are all chromed, a nice touch of quality, but added to the build cost of cost.
Hinges all removed with ease, but of course surface rust, bubbling etc, so will need to be re-chromed.
Am I surprised, no, but quality build – yes!
Passenger side door lock (LRE124, nice to see original lock, but the code cannot be traced today, so will take apart and get another key cut, nice to see still original Yale lock, shown in the door, with mechanism still attached.
The front of the lock will need re-chroming, but should be straight-forward. Famous last words…
More pictures, showing the dummy access panel when removed from door, and also first picture of door in pretty good conditon, with minor rust worms to inside surface at bottom.
Great timing, my front seat hinges have just been taken off the seats this afternoon.
So will be following this one up closely.
Were you hinges badly pitted or was it flaking chrome ?