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MG TD TF 1500 - upholstery in rear tub

Recently your members helped me with details of the construction of the side screen curtain box on a TF 1500. This is now built and I would appreciate some photos and/or advice to show how the upholstery ( Moss Motors ) fits into the corners of the back tub and also the panel where the crank handle fits. Also I see that the carpet that sits below the front of the sidescreen box has a strip of vinyl along its top edge.. How does all this fit along with the front panel of the box? Thanks in anticipation. Paul.New Zealand
P Hicks

If you look at the gallery of original TFs on The Original MG TF website, which includes loads of pictures of such details, you should be able to see how it should be done. Its the source that I used with success.
Dave H
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Paul -

Find the Interior Pictures of TF9052 on Chris Couper's site:
http://www.mg-cars.org.uk/mgtf/Pictures/TF9052/Thumbnails/mgtf_tf9052.htm

Then look at these photos to answer some of your questions:
#255, #262, #263, #264, #272, #273, #276.

TF9052 photos don't show the piping at the side curtain box very well.

Slide #44 at the end of Chris's carpet instructions shows an original car with the beading between the vinyl wheel arches and the carpet on the side curtain box.
Link to carpet instructions
http://www.mg-cars.org.uk/mgtd/mgtd_carpet.htm

The wheel arches were already upholstered when I installed the carpets in my TF. I tried to make the carpet and the vinyl beading look like Slide #44.

Follow Chris's carpet instructions. They are excellent. However, I suggest one modification ...

The instructions imply that that the carpet below the sidescreen box is glued onto the heel board and over the flange of the prop shaft tunnel including the screws that hold it to the heel board. Don't do it. You will not be able to remove the prop shaft tunnel if you need to remove the floorboards.

Instead, don't glue to the flange of the tunnel. In fact, don't glue to the heel board within an inch of the flange. Cut some slots in the carpet at the screw heads so that you can remove them and spread the slots in the carpet enough to remove the prop shaft tunnel.

The back of the hand brake cover rests against the carpet on the heel board. It covers the slits and the area that is not glued

I did it this way and I was glad when I had to remove the floorboards a few weeks later.

Lonnie
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LM Cook

Don't know if it correct ... here is how I attached the carpet at the side curtain box and wheel arch on my TF. The front plate of the box overlaps the carpet. (Ain't pretty) Seems that it is the only way that will allow me to take it apart later.

Lonnie
TF7211

LM Cook

Looking at TF9052 photo #272 vs. the photo above of my TF heel board, it looks like I should have moved the carpet down more than I did so that the beading aligns with the bottom of the front plate of the side curtain box. I had to cover up the existing messed-up vinyl on my wheel arches.

Lonnie
TF7211
LM Cook

I posted these pictures in a thread a while back and I can't find my post in the archives.

Picture heavy. I apologize. Good luck on your restoration.



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Small piece of vinyl for the cutouts for the hand crank. These are usually lost and fall behind the board for the handcrank due to the glue dries out. This small detail is often missing on restorations.

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TF 9052 on Chris Couper's TF website and survivor cars like Matthew Magilton's grey TF are great examples to examine to do your restoration correctly.

Frank Cronin

I have posted this photo previously. For the rear corners I made simple backing formers from thin aluminium and the covered them with the vinyl. I bent two right angles along the rear edge to form a ledge which is fixed to the rear plywood with screws hidden behind the starting handle backing board. At the front there are screws behind the quarter panel. I don't think it possible to get a taught fit without rigid backing. For the wheel arch covers I cut plywood vertical backers and then cast fibre glass horizontal sections. This enabled me to pull the vinyl nice an tight. One tip is leave the vinyl draped over a radiator for a few minutes. It is stretch much more easilly

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Another shot showing the starting handle backing board. Anyone see the deliberate mistake?

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This thread was discussed between 13/11/2015 and 14/11/2015

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