Hello gentlemen, I really need your help!

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rockabilly11
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Hello gentlemen, I really need your help!

Post by rockabilly11 » Tue Sep 22, 2015 10:28 am

Hello gentlemen,
I really need your help! I am new here, and I dont have to much information about different things. I have tried lots of things to get information,but I wasnt lucky.
I am a 22 year old guy from Hungary, and I have got a 1973 Morris Marina 1.8 two door COUPE. If I am right this is the only one in my country, so really rare, what makes me proud,but gives me lots of problem too. My fathers uncle bought it back in 1973 so I am the secont owner! :D
The difficulty level of my situation is very high. The work shops cant help me they never saw and never heard about it, they cant understand its not a mini morris!
So this is my main situation. Anyway, now I REALLY NEED A REAR WINDSCREEN/WINDOW RUBBER SEAL FOR MY 1973 MORRIS MARINA 2 DOOR COUPE!!!! I cant find it anywhere, and have no ide where can I get! Please gentlemen help me!
Thank you so much!
(sorry because of my english)

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PHUQ
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Re: Hello gentlemen, I really need your help!

Post by PHUQ » Tue Sep 22, 2015 10:44 am

Your English is an awful lot better than my Hungarian.

Unfortunately they are no longer available. Several people on the forum have used a Ford Escort Mk3 FRONT Windscreen rubber instead. This is the right height and shape in the corners (or close to) but is too wide, so it will need to be cut along the top and the bottom and be shortened to match the width of your screen. Not ideal but it's the best solution we've found so far. You may be able to find a local source, but if not East Kent Trim in the UK sell the Escort screen rubber you need.
Matt
1974 1973 Tundra Black Tulip 1800 SDL TC Estate "Mud"- slowly slowly coming together.
1972 White 1800 DL Saloon- Better than it looks, but it looks awful...

rockabilly11
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Re: Hello gentlemen, I really need your help!

Post by rockabilly11 » Tue Sep 22, 2015 3:57 pm

Thank you so much for the idea, i will use your option if I wont find anything better, but until that I would like to ask to as the others to help me please! Anybody have a better idea, i would really like to go with morris marina rubber!
By the way it is never too late to learn in hungarian! If it helps you I can ask and answer in hungarian! :D

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marinabuoy
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Re: Hello gentlemen, I really need your help!

Post by marinabuoy » Wed Sep 23, 2015 4:40 pm

Szia rockabilly, nem tudok ajánlani jobb ötlete, de sok sikert a keresés. Saját autó ugyanaz, mint a tiéd, de a tiéd egy évvel fiatalabb, mint az enyém. Miért nem mutatja nekünk egy képet?

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PHUQ
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Re: Hello gentlemen, I really need your help!

Post by PHUQ » Wed Sep 23, 2015 9:22 pm

By all means keep looking, if you do find a source of a proper Marina one let us know. Unfortunately they seem very difficult to find- you might be lucky though 8-)
Matt
1974 1973 Tundra Black Tulip 1800 SDL TC Estate "Mud"- slowly slowly coming together.
1972 White 1800 DL Saloon- Better than it looks, but it looks awful...

rockabilly11
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Re: Hello gentlemen, I really need your help!

Post by rockabilly11 » Tue Sep 29, 2015 12:49 pm

:D Awesome Hungarian letter! I really liked it! Are you Hungarian,or your parents?
By the way I don't know how to upload picture of my marina... Thanks a lot and I let you know if I find anything!

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Re: Hello gentlemen, I really need your help!

Post by locost_bryan » Wed Sep 30, 2015 3:31 am

rockabilly11 wrote::D Awesome Hungarian letter! I really liked it! Are you Hungarian,or your parents?
By the way I don't know how to upload picture of my marina... Thanks a lot and I let you know if I find anything!
You can link to Photobucket or Flickr. The instructions are in a sticky somewhere on the forum (iirc). :ugeek:
Bryan
Auckland NZ

1972 Morris Marina 1750 TC Coupe "Ozzy"

rockabilly11
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Re: Hello gentlemen, I really need your help!

Post by rockabilly11 » Wed Sep 30, 2015 7:39 am

I am not so good in information technology, so it is still difficult to me. I don't have photobucket and Flickr, sorry...

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Re: Hello gentlemen, I really need your help!

Post by rockabilly11 » Wed Sep 30, 2015 7:43 am

Is there any chance to choose or use the mk3 escort front Window rubber to the rear with the chrome side? What is the way of it? I don't want only a single black rubber, because I have chrome in all of my windows.

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Re: Hello gentlemen, I really need your help!

Post by norway_triumph » Fri Oct 02, 2015 5:58 pm

i have second hand coupe rubber & window here in norway
There is some guy i know who drives regulary to poland each other week or so
or even better in the summer months i employee two bulgarians to work oon my cars , they could bring the windscreen over

would really like to have the coupe rear window rubber reproduced but the TOTAL market worldwide is maybe 500+ if EVERY coupes on the road were to change their rear window rubber . so the cost for a reasonable batc of say 50+ would make it more expensive than the market are willing to pay . but as marina prices is slowly rising - who knows in 10-15 yers... :)

rockabilly11
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Re: Hello gentlemen, I really need your help!

Post by rockabilly11 » Mon Oct 12, 2015 3:50 pm

Oh! Nice! And how can I get in contact with you? I would happyly buy that rubber!

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