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06-07-2013, 12:54 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Leicestershire,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Kirkham #523, 427 S/O
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Door Catch Straps
I'd like to fit some original style door pull straps to my car. Can anyone provide some close up pictures of how they are made and fastened at each end please.
Thank you,
Paul
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06-07-2013, 01:12 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Little Rock area,
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA Street Roadster #782 with 459 cu in FE KC engine, toploader, 3.31
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FatBoy
I'd like to fit some original style door pull straps to my car. Can anyone provide some close up pictures of how they are made and fastened at each end please.
Thank you,
Paul
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Do you mean the straps that secure to the door latch releases for opening the doors? |
06-07-2013, 02:16 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DanEC
Do you mean the straps that secure to the door latch releases for opening the doors?
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Them's the ones.  |
06-07-2013, 03:00 PM
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Location: Bay Area (Peninsula),
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA 427, 427/487 side-oiler
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Scroll down this page on the ERA website. They tend to be very correct with this sort of thing. Options list |
06-07-2013, 05:48 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA Street Roadster #782 with 459 cu in FE KC engine, toploader, 3.31
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My ERA ones have a loop that fits over the ball on the door latch release lever and the other end attaches to the underside of the door with a phillips head screw near the center side curtain bezel. I looked though a bunch of photo galleries of original cars and found a number showing the straps but none with any close up details of exactly how they were fastened on the original cars. Maybe an owner of an original will chime in.
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06-08-2013, 02:00 AM
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Cobra Make, Engine: Kirkham #523, 427 S/O
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Thank you Dan.
I seem to recall seeing on an original car that the front end of the strap was fastened to the bottom of the centre sidescreen ferrule by a ring.
Paul
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06-08-2013, 05:01 AM
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That would make sense. I hope someone can post a picure of an original showing this detail.
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06-09-2013, 05:39 PM
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Here are some photos of the door pull strap on my unrestored 289 cobra. The strap has a sewn in loop at each end and is then is just looped through itself at the end loop around the side curtain ferrule. I have seen a couple of other unrestored 289 cobras that had the same/similar configuration, but I have not seen original shelby factory photos close up of this area.
-sorry for the double post-
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06-09-2013, 05:49 PM
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Here are some photos of the door pull strap on my unrestored 289 cobra. The strap has sewn-in loops at both ends, and the strap is looped through itself at one of the loops around the side curtain ferrule. I have seen a couple of other unrestored 289 cobras that had a similar/same configuration, but I have not seen original shelby factory photos close up of this area.
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06-09-2013, 06:25 PM
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Location: Holderness, NH, US of A,
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Cobra Make, Engine: CSX 4772 old iron FE
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Great shot of the 289 door thanks. 427 didn't have the gusset on the on the center ferrule tubes. It should be screw and trim washer like bonnet centering bumpers.
Good pic of the door here csxinfo.net - Photo Gallery |
06-09-2013, 11:15 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: NAF 289 Slabside Early Comp Car with 289 Webers and all the goodies. Cancelling the efforts of several Priuses
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I don't want to hijack your thread, but while on this subject what actually restrains the doors when open. Is it a leather strap as well? Pictures?
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06-10-2013, 05:21 AM
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Cobra Make, Engine: Kirkham #523, 427 S/O
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mickmate
Great shot of the 289 door thanks. 427 didn't have the gusset on the on the center ferrule tubes. It should be screw and trim washer like bonnet centering bumpers.
Good pic of the door here csxinfo.net - Photo Gallery |
Hi Nick,
It is difficult to see on the picture you posted. Does the screw go into the underside of the door skin/frame? What are the "bonnet centering bumbers" that you referred to?
Thanks,
Paul |
06-10-2013, 11:23 AM
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Location: arroyo grande, ca,
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Cobra Make, Engine: NAF 427
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Hi Rick. I posted this pic in another thread talking about the door pocket.
This pic shows the door limit/stop strap connected at the hinge end between the two hinge "legs".
I know Cobra Restorers sells them and maybe others do also.
Cheers
Greg |
06-10-2013, 11:28 AM
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Hi Rick. I posted this pic in another thread talking about the door pocket.
This pic shows the door limit/stop strap connected at the hinge end between the two hinge "legs".
I know Cobra Restorers sells them and maybe others do also.
Cheers
Greg |
06-10-2013, 11:31 AM
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Sorry for the double post.
Greg
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06-10-2013, 11:45 AM
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Here are a couple more pics but I don't know if they are "restoration correct".
Cheers
Greg |
06-12-2013, 06:40 PM
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Location: Milford,
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Cobra Make, Engine: BRG ERA street car w/428 PI, Sunburst wheels, undercar exhaust, original interior, no philips head screws!
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Don't forget the leather strap for the glove box and the leather straps for the top bows in the trunk with the lift a dot end...there is also a rubber plug about 90% up on the door frame that fit into a plate with a whole in it on the door...I think it was for alignment
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06-15-2013, 03:46 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 428street
...there is also a rubber plug about 90% up on the door frame
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I don't know about Acecas and Greyhounds but Aces, Ace RS2.6s, and the earliest Cobras had conical brass pins in their door way a-pillars (forward vertical part of the door way) that fit into steel tube pockets integrated into the door frames. This feature changed on Cobras very soon to flat tip conical rubber bumpers. (The same rubber bumpers used to steady the top fronts of side windows.) The pocket in door frames remained thereafter but was filled with a flat head screw. Where the pin use to fit into the pocket in the door frame the rubber anti rattle bumper now pushed against a screw head.
Over the past several decades, the typical situation if the aluminum coach work was repaired or replaced in an a-pillar area, the hole was usually filled or not drilled in the case of new body panels.
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06-17-2013, 01:19 AM
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Brass pin
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08-29-2013, 06:53 PM
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