BMC part no. beginning with 24G

Neil McD. wrote:

part numbers like that carried through a whole range of BMC cars, don't
look for just a particular model.

I don't think the parts numbers have any significance model wise. Might be
worth putting a pic on a free site etc and posting the URL here - someone
might recognise it.

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Thanks for the suggestions guys.

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Neil McD.

Neil McD. wrote:

So whats the results?

When I figure out how to photograph something 6 feet long and about 2 inches
wide in enough detail to make it recogniseable, a picture will be put on
flickr so you can all feast your eyes on it and say "Aha! That is for a
?????".

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Neil McD.

That description should narrow the possibilities somewhat. I was thinking
of individual to each doorway kick plates. But I can't think of any BMC
car with one that wide. I'm seeing my brother tomorrow so I'll ask him. He
had several large old BMC vehicles.

Possibly the Austin 3 litre - based on the 1800 bodyshell?

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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

I am wondering whether it might be something that goes across a vehicle
rather than along it.  6 feet is enormous for a passenger door, but
quite feasible for the rear door of an estate.

Jim

I was assuming it went the length of the sill.


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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

That was my first thought too, but it was described as a "chrome door
sill kick strip" and I don't know of any door that is the same length as
a sill.  6 feet long and 2 inches wide doesn't remind me of a sill
decoration either.

Jim

A more accurate measurement today - its about 5foot 6inches in total length.
Square at one end, tapers at the other for the last foot or so. Flat face is
about 2 1/2 inches and has 3 lines of small indentations, and there is a lip
at 90 degrees of about 3/4 of an inch. And I only have one, not a pair, and
its definitely a sill strip, not a tailgate fitting.

My current thought is A60 Oxford/Cambridge. Possibly...

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Neil McD.

Not A60 series, and not A110 series, though they feature part numbers
very close to this one. The shape sounds very similar to the A60 kick
strip, but much longer. Also, the A60 kick strip was aluminium, and you
said this was chrome?

Phil

It is quite possibly aluminium - it's in a thick plastic protective wrapper
stored in an unlit attic so most of the weight is quite possibly the
wrapper, and "chrome" could be "shiny aluminium". The digital camera should
be available soon, picture posted online asap.

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Neil McD.

None of the Farinas had such a strip.

I did ask my brother and he also thought of the Austin 3 Litre - but that
was a fairly narrow strip, certainly not 2" wide.

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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:


How about an Austin Westminster?

http://www.motorbase.com/profiles/vehicle/picture.ehtml?i=294;p=285323510


Vanden Plas Princess?

http://www.vpoc.info/vp1800/56.jpg


Vanden Plas Princess 4-litre R?

(sorry, can't find pic. with door open).

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Ian Edwards wrote:


Is it just me, or can everyone smell the leather in that photo?


It's been a while, but I'm pretty certain they had "VP" etched into the
centres.

much like they were saying:


Those pics also look like the front and rear door plates would be split
at the A-pillar, which the OP's description certainly doesn't mention.

I saw an episode of "The Avengers" recently where one of the "good guys"
was drivign a Princess.

But I thought we had established it wasn't a trim over each individual
door opening but one which went along the whole outside of the sill - ie
visible with the doors closed.

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I think it is an internal "kick plate" not an external sill cover - it's too
flimsy to be fitted outside the car. I think the "big" side will be
vertical, with the taper fitting where the floor rises in the front footwell
and the small side which is at 90 degrees running along underneath the door
openings.
The digital camera should be home tonight, pictures up tomorrow hopefully!

Neil McD.