Spider door seals
Who sells OEM door and trunk seals for a 91 Spider?

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>alfa-digest         Monday, November 19 2012         Volume 10 : Number 2647
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>     [alfa] Alfa Spider damage repair advice
>     [alfa] RE: seat belt replacement
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>Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:47:56 -0800 (PST)
>From: Colin Talcroft <[email protected]>
>Subject: [alfa] Alfa Spider damage repair advice
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>Hi all,
>
>My 1978 Spider suffered some fairly minor (or s I thought) cosmetic
>damage recently and the insurance company has agreed to pay for the removal of
>a small dent and repair to the paint. The body shop (which I trust; I've had
>other work done there with truly amazing results) said that in order to do it
>right, pretty much the whole front end of the car would have to be repainted,
>at a cost of just under $1,700. That's fine. Makes sense. Hagerty has been
>WONDERFUL about it. I can wholeheartedly recommend Hagerty for collector car
>insurance. I would have settled for dent removal and a hand touch-up to the
>paint, but they encouraged me to have it done right, even if it was
>expensive. 
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>What I'm wondering is this: Is there anything tricky about
>removing the trim on this car that I should alert the body shop to? I know
>they do great work with paint and the owner has said he'll do the work
>himself, but just wondering if there's anything especially Alfa quirky that I
>need to tell him before I take it in? The front bumper will have to come off,
>the two-piece silver Alfa "grill" will too and also the sidelights and the
>metal around the windshield, perhaps?
>
>Thanks
>
>Colin
>1978 Alfa Spider
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>Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 15:06:51 -0600
>From: "Carl R. Davis" <[email protected]>
>Subject: [alfa] RE: seat belt replacement
>
>Almost any 3-point belt with single spring loaded windup is going to work.
>It will probably be safer than the original Alfa system with two spring
>loaded windups.  People looking at your car would really have to know GTV's
>well to spot the change.
>
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>I forget from whom I bought my 74 GTV replacements.   I remember they turned
>out to be a German manufacturer.  What makes it easy is that the USA first
>demanded them and set the spec for the installation bolts ... they are
>inch-threads not millimeters.  Apparently the world adapted that standard.
>
> 
>
>Carl R. Davis
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>2823 S. Rocky Hill Road, Galena, Illinois, USA 61036
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>750E, 750F, 10121, 105.62, 115.01, 115.41S4
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