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    Brass and aluminum center caps

    I just found these in bloody ol' England. Does anyone know more about them?
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    They are the ring type and not three prong.
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    Jens -

    Those look like 356 crest discs that came on the baby moon dished wheel covers for the steel wheels. A body of min ehas something similar on his 356. Jeffrey at Perfect Motion in Florida used to offer something similar as well.

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    Yeah Jim, my first thought was MG mitten or one of those early accessory catalogues. Whoever made these did a really nice job and used factory 356 and 911 pieces, not homebuilt at all. I put them on my white car. It's a good look.

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    No doubt....thats gonna look way cool on the white hotrod. How is the '68 turning out? Any major stuff or little Damion tweeks?

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    A fiberglass hood with an off-center hood filler, FRP rear decklid, fenders... He and John won't allow me fiberglass doors without a cage for side impact protection, but other than that I'm thinking if it's possible to make it in FRP, I'll use it to add all the lightness I can. His longhood backdate set-up for later cars is just amazing, no chassis mods at all. Bolt-on retro. I'll do the White car and then use his S front bumper, no RS front for this car. I'm psyched!

    Here's the White car with these caps-
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    What are you going to do for seats? Sounds like a f-u-u-u-un project.

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    I'll likely make them. There's an upholsterer here locally that had his Talbot win Pebble Beach that will do the stitching, cheeeep. Unless of course you have something just gathering dust.

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    Just wondering whether you were using race seats or something top secret We should make some 935 seats!

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    Ohh yeah! That'd be cool too. I've had in mind to make some fiberglass ST or RS buckets and have them sewn up by the guy here.

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