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I am preparing to apply twin gold/ copper coach line tape to my Jaguar. The coach line tape is OEM Jaguar and for my Series III.
Can someone whom owns a series III with twin coach lines take a picture at the area where the coach lines meet each door jam edge. I want to know if the coach lines wrap around and into the door jam edge or are cut just short of the door jam edge.
I want to be sure I stay as factory correct as possible.
Correct. But the more important thing lies elsewhere: make sure that the ends of the coachlines (front and rear) end just short of the indented coach lines on the body. Poor restorations are often marked by coachlines that extend further in both directions, and also by leaping- cat badges on the lower fenders which have the cats leaping to the rear in fear!
(I can't stand autocorrect....I wrote "coach" lines and the AUTO error made it "stage" (coach?) lines (now corrected by me). This "feature" also turns the plural version of the marque name to a possessive. Let's see if it will do so now: jaguar's ...YUP, it did. Who asked for that apostrophe? An apostrophe indicates either a missing letter or letters, or a possessive. It does not, repeat NOT indicate a plural. What kind of grammar-challenged moron was put in charge of this programme?)
also, the tape goes towards the inside of the rear door jambs by 3/8" inch and around the door edges by 5/8" inch. I assume the same at the front wings' edge where it meets with the front door's edge.
Correct again. And regarding coachline length, the photos show this correctly (this car is my 1992 V12 Vanden Plas, colour Black Cherry, #92 of 100 made):
Many thanks for the coach line specs. Very helpful.
Does anyone happen to own a VDP with the Gold / Copper factory applied twin coach lines that they could include a picture of?
Lastly, how did Jaguar apply these coach lines at the factory to be so consistent? Would they have used some type of alignment fixture? Or, did they just have really good workers that were just doing it by hand and eye?
The application: I suspect it was a case of good hand and eye coordination, and lots of practice. Here is a photo of the coachlines on another V12 VDP (1990); the factory coachlines had a rounded, blunter end to them but they ended in the same spot.
Gregory,
Perhaps an approximate distance measurement from the front and rear fender edges would be in order? Not definitive to be sure, but helpful.
Thanks,
Andrew.
Gregory,
Perhaps an approximate distance measurement from the front and rear fender edges would be in order? Not definitive to be sure, but helpful.
Thanks,
Andrew.
Andrew: I would happily do a measurement but I cannot because I no longer have a Series III car (#92/100 is now in Beijing...every time I look at the photos of it, I regret selling it...but a drive in my F-Type soon fixes that). In any case, the swage line indentation serves as a very good guide. As long as the coachlines do not extend past the end of the swage lines, they will look right. There was a certain amount of variance even on the factory application.
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