Warren,
One of the things I had on ole' #78 was a full length sill scuff trim that covered the vertical area from the door lip up to the normal horizontal sill trim. This was actually on the sill and seen when the door was open. I have never seen another one ?? Wish it had survived .Warren,
In case you're interested in original door scuff panels I have a few of the larger, still in the box, AMCO door scuff panels for Alpines and Tigers. They mount in the same area as the small one shown. I also have the scuff guards to mount on the trans tunnel so you don't wear the carpet when using the gas pedal. I still have quite a few aftermarket items for use on these cars when new.
Nope; the piece I had sat just below those and was the full length of the sill.
It was AMCO part #6533 and sold for$4.95. scuff plate was part #6503 @$3.95 and the throttle plate was #6521 @ $2.95. I have a set of the sill plates but they're longer because they fit my 69 Alpine GT. I have several AUTO WORLD catalogs from the late 60's to 1971. They must have stocked every AMCO part #.
George Byers in Columbus also stocked and sold AMCO parts for every marque of import cars along with numerous other after market items starting with the A's and going thru the alphabet. They were the midwest distributor for Rootes.
Warren, you know stock means "what i put on my car (insert years ago)" or what the dealer put in...😉These are AMCO visor's as well ya seem them on Cobra's but that doesn't make em stock does it? Maybe include the Japanese AM radio as it could have been dealer installed
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I'm not doubting what you're saying concerning radios but I have several of the radios with "SUNBEAM" on the dial that have no provisions for dual polarity. They're all negative ground. They also do not have a speaker as part of the radio. They're all external speakers. It could be the time frame in which they were made. I do have a couple older Motorola radios that have provisions for pulling out a tab for reversing the polarity but they don't have the "SUNBEAM" logo. A couple Motorolas that I have do have internal speakers. There has been confusion as to the radio mounting used in the cars but there is a series 2 Alpine in Pa. that has the later, wide mounting that was installed by the dealer when the owner bought the car new and took delivery of a LHD car while stationed with the U.S. Armed forces in the U.K. This mounting had to have been used in an earlier Rootes product for it to be available to U.K. dealers at that time. Has anyone else run across a Rootes vehicle that used the later mount? As you can see it's not the same as the series 2 Alpine radio mounting that has been in one of my Harringtons forever. Dealers also used the small metal mounting as is in one of our cars when the wife bought it in California in 1994. I do have several variations of Rootes speaker housings. This happens to be a late series 5 prior to the switch to the non peaked head light rims. Were there any standard items installed by dealers if not ordered when the car left the factory? It seems that dealers sold what ever made more profit for the store.
Take a look at the radio in my red Harrington. Is it a negative ground piece?
