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TomMull said:
And Marv, I do have a black glove box cover. I'll put it on for a picture.
Tom
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Any Improvement with the black glove box door?
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Marvin Gruber said:
See, I can live with that! Drive it

Marv
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Yea, I guess. Live with it is the operative term, but it sure beats my other options. Thanks for the suggestion. Tom
 
If you decide you want to change the color to black I have some very lightly used black seat covers for TR3 with the squared off seat bottoms, they came from Moss. They would go cheap.
 
Kleykamp said:
Forgive me for going off track a little bit, but the mention of the "cutout" being "trimmed differently" prompts the question. On my car, the original dash covering is more like a laminated plastic covering than a vinyl/cloth covering. Is that something that was done on later cars? My previous cars had been stripped of the dash covering before I got them so I have no idea about earlier cars. Until I got this car I just assumed they were all the vinyl fabric type of covering. Again, sorry to go off track.
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We're having the same discussion on the other forum. The very late cars did have a different kind of covering on the dash. Probably still a vinyl/PVC of some sort, but apparently molded to the metal of the dash rather than being vinyl coated fabric glued to the metal like the earlier cars. The later stuff is a real PITA to get off!
 
TR3driver said:
We're having the same discussion on the other forum. The very late cars did have a different kind of covering on the dash. Probably still a vinyl/PVC of some sort, but apparently molded to the metal of the dash rather than being vinyl coated fabric glued to the metal like the earlier cars. The later stuff is a real PITA to get off!
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I'm convinced. "Very late cars" might be too specific though. I wonder if there are any post 60k cars with the old glued on vinyl? My other TR3, built May 1960, has the later molded style. It would also seem that the dash is the only place on the car this was used.
Randall, did you try heat to remove?
Tom
 
The black door looks intentional...the green looks like a mistake. I'll vote for the black....no protest please.
 
carpecursusII said:
If you decide you want to change the color to black I have some very lightly used black seat covers for TR3 with the squared off seat bottoms, they came from Moss. They would go cheap.
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Will send PM
 
TomMull said:
Randall, did you try heat to remove?
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Been too long (over 30 years), I don't recall what I tried. I just remember giving up on the project.
 
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