Badge position - have badges but no holes

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Malcolm

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I have a set of "ROVER" chrome badge letters to fit to a very early series 2 2000TC. From what I have seen these fit along the very top edge of the boot lid. I can work out the horizontal spacing from pictures but how high up should they be. Could anyone advise the height from the top edge of the chrome number plate cover to the bottom edge of the letters. I can't simply stick them on and try them as they all have mounting legs . (Boot lid has been replaced with later version and I disposed of the old one before ..... well we can all be wise with hindsight !!)
 
Malcolm,
I have just measured the letters on the boot lid of my 1968 Three Thousand Five and they are 4¼" (four and one quarter inches) up from the number plate mounting plinth to the bottom of the letters and 22 & 3/8" (1 foot 10 and three eights of an inch) from the leading edge of the boot lid to the top of the letters. Hope this helps. Regards, John.
 
Malcolm,
Don't tell me, you're still trying to decipher my dimensions! Sorry about that, but I still think / measure in good old imperial units. Did this answer your query tho'?
Regards, John.
 
Thanks John, your dimensions were fine after all the Rover is not a metric beast - However, It proved no easy matter to take 5 loose letters with two pins each and line em up to drill the holes. Ended up sticking them face down on double sided tape getting the alignment correct, then a piece of stiff card pushed down onto the pins - one template. Then a major panic when I thought I'd drilled half the holes with the template the wrong way round ! Anyway the holes are drilled, Wadhams supplied the badge plastic clips and once the boot lid paint is finished on they will go. Pity I didnt take so much care fitting the mirrors onto the bonnet, I can see the mirrors fine but cars only if alonside ! fill & redrill methinks
 
That's where I've got mine......well one at least. I've managed to acquire another one but the glass is manky. Will any glaziers be able to cut me a new one or does it have to be convex/concave etc.
 
These are the spun alloy "sports" mirrors , the style is shown in the optional extras in the parts book. Ive only ever seen three pictures of P6's with these fitted and they do go on the bonnet about 10" in front of the decker panel. Why ? because that is the only place where you can see the things, believe me I have tried all the usual places and some unusual.
I set the passenger one up first so I could see it (curve of bonnet and windscreen wipers in the way if not careful) then like a fool drilled the drivers side to match. But its too far inboard on that side. Was it a mistake ? is it coincidence that no one else uses them ? good talking point though, even if they are "decorative" rather than practical.
 
Malcolm.
Why go tothe troubleofdrilling the holes ( okay thats how they were originally fitted) but why not use double sided tape thats used to fit number plates and other things as fitted to
" modern" cars.
I think it would be much easier.
Paul ;)
 
Thanks Paul, but I prefer good solid mechanical fixings, I've never yet managed a satisfactory long term relationship with double sided tape or "superglues". Bolts will still be snugly rusted solid in 10 years - the glue will have failed long since .
I dont fancy tooling along at 70mph wondering whether 1/2lb of mirror is going to suddenly decide to join me in the car, or take out an innocent pedestrian as I rattle past. My father once fixed a stripped spark plug thread on his Hillman Imp with "Plastic Metal" - drove a whole 10 feet before the plug punched a two inch hole in the boot lid (rear engine). To this day he believes that it was only because he hadnt let it "cure" long enough. blind faith in the advertisers bumpf.
 
Malcolm,
I think (hope) Paul was talking about the letters not the mirrors!
I have toyed with the idea of fitting the sports mirrors as I don't want to fit a door mirror (too young for my car) and have only a wing mirror which is virtually useless. I can recommend the stadium (or pattern copy) overtaker mirror clamped to the quarterlight tho'.
If you have any suitable dimensions for fitting sports mirrors please pass them on.
Thanks, and regards, John.
 
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