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I have a busted tag on a tail light so rather than buy a new one, I improvised. The 2015 is actually better for this than the later corks, being a good vintage.

The tail lights in these things are very vulnerable to damage from items in the boot.
There is an optional solution which should’ve been standard fitting on these cars.

The first things I fitted when I got my TF!

Go for rear light covers by all means but please don’t remove the cork, Nicolas Feiullatte is more than respectable & when your car passes on, which it eventually will, the new owner, if capable of rune reading, should recognise you as a man of ingenuity & taste.

minimax wrote:

I have a busted tag on a tail light so rather than buy a new one, I improvised. The 2015 is actually better for this than the later corks, being a good vintage.

In 1970 my wife and I were out in Lincolnshire in our Frogeye ( We were doing a year at Cranwell courtesy of the RNZAF) when there was a sudden, overwhelming smell of petrol. Pulled in, checked under the bonnet and found that the thread in the fuel pump body for the fuel outlet pipe union had stripped. After a little fiddling I discovered that the stubby screwdriver from my toolkit could be wedged against the pipe hard enough to seal it in the pump. So off we went. Six months later I sold the car to a dealer, after it (and the screwdriver) passed MOT. I occasionally wonder what happened after the new owner found and pulled out the stubby.......

When very young I once repaired a rotten Victor's inner wing with carboard and underseal, now being a lot older and not much wiser I would use something non absorbent like vinyl

DavePro wrote:

In 1970 my wife and I were out in Lincolnshire in our Frogeye ( We were doing a year at Cranwell courtesy of the RNZAF) when there was a sudden, overwhelming smell of petrol. Pulled in, checked under the bonnet and found that the thread in the fuel pump body for the fuel outlet pipe union had stripped. After a little fiddling I discovered that the stubby screwdriver from my toolkit could be wedged against the pipe hard enough to seal it in the pump. So off we went. Six months later I sold the car to a dealer, after it (and the screwdriver) passed MOT. I occasionally wonder what happened after the new owner found and pulled out the stubby.......

In a dire emergency, I once bypassed a water-clogged fuel filter on a Granada after a disastrous petrol (and rusty water) fill up in Rural Scotland with a plastic bic pen jammed into both pipes. Lasted until I could get a replacement filter. The plastic was very soft by then though...
Dont try this at home, peeps!

DavePro wrote:

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Hi and welcome to the forum.

James

I am proud of my fix…
And in line with my motto of adapt improvise and bodge it and scarper, i did the following.
When 17 and the proud owner of a Datsun f1 rot box, the aerial decided to self detach (probably trying to find a better home than the collection of assembled rust that were Datsuns), I decided to relocate it. After musing over various areas of equally dodgy rust panels, I decided to install it into the passenger side dashbaord inside the car. Yes, the passenger could enter the vehicle and extend the metal aerial themselves in the warm dry comfort of the interior without getting wet. Genius. I am surprised it never caught on….