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Hi Paul, good to hear from you. I'm at the very start of trying to make her look tidier now. Lots to do though. It's such a non-standard car already that I feel more liberated to do whatever I want to do than I ever did with Monty (granted Monty is also trifficly non-standard but he deserved more of a preservation approach than a 'slap a bit of plastic on it' approach). It doesn't matter on this car, and I don't care if it's correct or not... I just don't do anything that couldn't ever be done properly if a future owner wanted to do it right.

Hibernation sounds like a good place for Monty to be right now... this weather is bloody horrible.

Not sure if you know but there's a RR Gathering at Goodwood in May. A few of us have c̶o̶b̶b̶l̶e̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶g̶e̶t̶h̶e̶r̶ founded a s̶l̶a̶p̶d̶a̶s̶h̶ prestigious car club called the BNMAC. If you felt like joining us to display Monty or any other of your impressive fleet of cars, let me know!

And yes, if you're going to be out and about and you want to head down this way let me know... would be great to catch up!

I'm great at selling cars I am.

Enquirier: "Hi, I saw you offered your car up for a swap on RR this week. Would you be interested in selling it?"

Me: "If you buy this car, everyone you know and love will be crushed by a lorry and will die painfully in a fire"

Enquirer:

But where's the fun in that Phil?

Where's the humanity? Hands reaching out across the void, compassion and understanding, sound advice and friendly guidance along the road to a happy ever after?

I like to really connect with people, get to the heart of the matter, find the soul and connect to it meaningfully to create an impression that will last a lifetime.

I'm just... I'm just that kind of guy. An old softy with a heart of coal.

It's why I wear these boots...

Funny... my wife often says the exact same thing. Have you two ever met?

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I just took the Scim out for a blast to road test the new door cards. Much much faster now. I think it's added at least 30bhp.

I went to Cliffords, our local autoparts emporium which has just announced it's closing its doors. It was full of grown men on their knees, crying and pleading with the owners to reconsider. No chance... they're not even interested in a buy out if one were offered.

Anyway, I was there to try and get some trim to finish my doors. I ordered some stuff of ebay that looked the ticket but it wont work. Cliffords similarly didn't have much of anything but I have bought some flat-topper rubber U-channel stuff and a roll of aluminium tape. I think as a short term fix to stop the vinyl cover fraying off from the upper edge of the door, I'm going to have to do some fancy footwork with aluminium tape as trim with the rubber U-channel underneath it.

Ultimately I think I'll need to try and fold my own permanent trim out of metal. I get so bored of ordering stuff and then it doesn't fit or look right, but it was too cheap to be bothered to return it so it all just sits under my desk like a rabid automotive octopus of doom.

Anyone got any good leads on something that will rigidly cover this and look semi-decent?

Hi there

I often fit bonded windows into campers and use a knock on edging around the cut aperture.

Its wire reinforced and very tough. Any automotive glazing compant should sell you a bit

cheers - mike

Cheers Mike. I just had a quick google around for knock-on edge trim and there's a fair few options coming up.

I do really want to get something that I can pinch into a secure fixing so that they're not constantly flying off out of the window every time I or a passenger winds the window down and puts their elbow out.

I think I might need to get creative with some soft roofing flashing material.

Hey Mike, may I ask you a question about windscreen rubbers given that you're in the business of refurbing vehicles and refitting glass and whatnot...

My SE5a has always had a very shabby windscreen rubber. I always planned to change it but I patched it up as a short term measure and two year's later it's still there doing its job. It does now look even worse for wear though. There's just been some chat on the Modified Scimitar group on Facebook about changing windscreen rubbers. The upshot of which is that the 'proper' seal offered by QRG is apparently pretty terrible, leaks like crazy and costs £300.

One person has posted a picture of a non-Scim rubber seal he's got on his Scim, which was supplied by the fitter he used to do the job. He says it works very well and looks very tidy too.

Would you happen to know anything about what my options are for looking at generic rubber seals for a Scim?

Here's the pic of the one off the Modified Scimitar FB group...



... obviously thats also a heated windscreen, which I wont be fitting, but I wonder if it's possible to identify a rubber going only by an external shot like this?

Reason for asking is I just made a couple of initial enquiries with local independent windscreen fitters who claim to do classic cars, but all they did was look on their computer and say "no, Pilkington don't list a rubber for that car, sorry".

Also... can anyone else tell me how one goes about using a member's name in a post in such a way that it becomes a live yellow linky thing that alerts them to the post? I just can't figure it out at all.

Just put an "@" before their name, so @ Quatermass becomes @quatermass (remove the space I left).

I just manned up and got it from Graham Walker. Reason being I only wanted to do it once..

It's likely to be the same seal offered by QRG (as it's an odd ball profile, so the same batch probably fed both suppliers (as they do talk to each other) but the 6-series screen fits totally different to a 5-series screen and uses a totally different seal so it like comparing apples to cuttlefish.