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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.
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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
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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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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 |
That would make sense. I hope someone can post a picure of an original showing this detail.
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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- http://www.clubcobra.com/forums/pict...=10171&thumb=1 http://www.clubcobra.com/forums/pict...=10172&thumb=1 |
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.
http://www.clubcobra.com/forums/pict...ictureid=10172 http://www.clubcobra.com/forums/pict...ictureid=10171 |
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 |
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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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 |
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. http://www.clubcobra.com/photopost/d...r_detail_1.jpg Cheers Greg |
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. http://www.clubcobra.com/photopost/d...r_detail_1.jpg Cheers Greg |
Sorry for the double post.
Greg |
Here are a couple more pics but I don't know if they are "restoration correct".
http://www.clubcobra.com/photopost/d...door_strap.jpg http://www.clubcobra.com/photopost/d...or_strap_2.jpg Cheers Greg |
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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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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The door hinge limit straps are vinyl to match the dash and wrap on cowl hoop etc. I describe them here.
Door Hinge Limit Strap [427 289 CSX CCX KMP ACE HT SPF] - $40.00 : Acton Custom Enterprises, Custom Metal for Cobras |
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