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I am looking at buying myself a tr7, if I find a nice one I think I'd like to get a Rimmers body kit put on. Has anyone done this before or have any experience of costs to get one fitted or even how hard it was to do a good job yourself?

Thanks!

Which kit? Where are you?

jclay

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Either the mk2 or mk3 body styling kit, whats the difference other than the look of it?

I live near Manchester, UK

Costs should be on the Rimmers website: www.rimmerbros.co.uk , they show both in the catalogue, £258.75 for the Mk 2 but Mk 3 not given in the price list I have. They would of course need fitting and finishing (spraying).

Alan
Saab 9000 Stg 1
Saab 9000 2.3 FPT Auto
'81 TR7 DHC

This is the Kit I have that I won't be using, if anyone is interested.

On my old yellow car:


On another car:


jclay

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I'm going to jump into this question too. Two questions really. First - that picture from jclay, has body color bumpers. I picked up a parts car with a body color bumper. How do they do that? It seems like such a hard shell, like hard plastic not the soft rubber-like of the black bumper. Is it the same bumper with layers of paint? Is there a trick to painting plastic?
Seond question, more related to this post; I also have been considering one of the kits from Rimmers but unsure which to purchase. They don't have many good pictures. Does anyone have pictues and/or experience with these? Are there other kits on the market besides the MK2 and MK3?

Thanks for all the help guys! This forum is more valuable that you can imagine.

By the way jclay, I might be interested in your kit. What is included?

you can catch my at my email if you like... cozyheatdave@gmail.com

Thanks

Sold it yesterday.

jclay

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You might want to look at http://www.morspeedperformance.com as he is one of us. Body kits for TR7/8 & MG's. He has lots of shiny stuff[:D]
Cliff[8D]

Don't use force, get a bigger hammer!!

I find it "somewhat" amusing how Rimmer is claiming to have built the first TR 7/8 body kit? I'm thinkin Ken Slagle,(SCCA/GT1), Bob Tullius(Group 44) and Huffaker Engineering all made, serious body kits and SOLD them. Let's give credit where it's due shall we? If it wasn't for the skilled/dedicated racing efforts of these groups and others,TR 7/8's would be just another British car with no history. roverman[:(]

Art Gertz

I find it "somewhat" amusing how Rimmer is claiming to have built the first TR 7/8 body kit? I'm thinkin Ken Slagle,(SCCA/GT1), Bob Tullius(Group 44) and Huffaker Engineering all made, serious body kits and SOLD them. Let's give credit where it's due shall we? If it wasn't for the skilled/dedicated racing efforts of these groups and others,TR 7/8's would be just another British car with no history. roverman[:(]

Art Gertz

Thanks for that link to motor speed performance.
I like their kit. At least I have something to compare.

Thanks for the emails jclay

Back to an older question - Anybody have any experience with prep and paint of these plastic bumbers? I've worked on a lot of old cars but never painted plastic bumbers before.