Hi All,
I'm new on here, I'm currently restoring a MK2 which was a 2.4 but will be having a fully rebuilt 3.8 installed. I have just refitted the full restored dash and top rail but there seems to be some trim missing on either side is this correct?
Cheers
Ray

 

Welcome!

The S Type has a chrome trim on either end of the dash capping. I don't think the Mk2 ever had it. The gap on either side is supposed to be trimmed in upholstery matching Vinyl.

S Type.




Mk2





Original during stripping. See Vinyl

 

Oh dear ! In theory, the whole dash now needs to come out to stick the vinyl onto the body shell on each side. It it were me, I use a couple of pieces of car trim board, (thick grey cardboard) cut to size, covered and then glued in.

 

I've an idea I post a photo when its done!

 

Now to the opposite of beautiful interiors!



The top picture shows the fibre board that fills the gap and the leatherette material that covers it and the surrounding metal. It's attached by a couple of tacks into the rubbery material beneath the furflex around the door frame. The fibre board is about 2mm thick and slightly curved. The bottom photo shows the space it fits into.

It's not precision engineering, so I'd go for the easiest way to cover the gap in the right colour.

 

Fantastic detail Peter. I did the best I could with what I had from the pre digital era. Dismantling & scanning old photo albums is a PIA.

 

By chance, the piece of trim we're discussing was still present on the LHS of my car, hanging from the leatherette, so I was able to take fresh photos with my phone this morning.

 

Thank you all, Very helpful! I've made a couple of cardboard templates and I will fabricate a couple of panels from soft aluminium which I will cover and fit. I will post a couple of pictures when done
Cheers
Ray

 

I made these!




They fit pretty well and are secured with Velcro!

 

A very neat piece of work.

 

Cheers Peter!

 

I very much like the idea of using velcro. It might also be a good way of attaching the furflex around the doors, anything other than the nasty tacking strip stuff. Somehow, hammering nails into a Jaguar is so wrong to me that I can't do it!

 

Very neat. I dumped all tacking strips & tacks. My guy used what was new to me. A contact type adhesive that allows you some working & alignment time, that you then heat with a small Iron & it cures immediately. Job done.

These things are terrible.

 

The Mark 2, as with other Jaguar saloons of the period continued to use pre-war trimming methods. There are channels all over the inside to take the tacking strips. I remember my bodyshell I bought didn't have these installed as it was a shell sold off by Jaguar after the Mark 2 ceased production. I had to take these from the car I already had, as I was junking the shell. I remember extracting the screw nails, and whalloping them back into the new shell !

Originally tacks would have been used to secure things like the Furflex around the doors and the edges of the headlining, but by the 60s, the trimmers used staple guns. These guys were on piece work, so to earn a lot of money, time was of the essence, so when tacks were used, they would have a mouthful of tacks and put the magnetic head of the tack hammer up to their lips to get another tack to bash in. Most got through to retirement, and smoking probably killed the rest, not the tacks !!

 

Glyn, those almost look like screws that might take a round socket!

 

Yes ~ the old Jaguar Twisted Tacks had no or less obvious "serrations" on them.

Some Jaguar originals. The above are what they will supply you with today.

 

Thanks for posting this, Ray. My project is currently in 10,000 pieces and those corner pieces are things I didn't even know that I needed. I bought a stalled project and the interior had already been gutted so I really don't know where things go. If it were me taking it apart, I would have a page of notes and 3 photos of every tack placement. I'm actually dreading the interior work when the time comes.

 

Hi, Mine came in 1000s of pieces too! I think I've worked out where most of it goes now, I have to the Engine and G/Box to install (when I eventually get it back from the builders) and the front Suspension to rebuild,I have bought a progressive semi electric power steering kit, some poly bushes and a nice set of dampers. It came with a new set of 4 pot Zeus calipers which the guy I bought it of was going to fit, I've got a set of EBC grooved discs to compliment them......................Nearly there!!!

 

Thank you All,
Your pictures and answers have been really useful I only wish I had found this forum earlier It would have saved me some time !
Ray