× 1-800-946-2642 Home My Account Social / Forum Articles Contact My Cart
Shop Now
Select Your Car Type Sale Items Clearance Items New Items
   Forum Width:     Forum Type: 

Found 31 Messages

Previous Set of Pages 1 | 2

 Posted: Dec 16, 2017 07:39AM
 Edited:  Dec 16, 2017 07:48AM
Total posts: 
Last post: Dec 16, 2017
Member since:Jul 9, 2000
Cars in Garage: 0
Photos: 0
WorkBench Posts: 0
They look like Siata Spring door hinges.

 Posted: Dec 15, 2017 06:03PM
Total posts: 1268
Last post: Feb 23, 2020
Member since:Oct 30, 2008
Cars in Garage: 0
Photos: 46
WorkBench Posts: 1
Have it built up, tigged, brazed welded whatever. & remachine

 Posted: Dec 15, 2017 02:24PM
Total posts: 11
Last post: Jan 6, 2018
Member since:Dec 14, 2017
Cars in Garage: 0
Photos: 0
WorkBench Posts: 0
Quote:
Originally Posted by minimans
If you have the original hinges but they are just worn at the pins try looking at the pin rebuild kits sold for the mini hinges, they may well work for your hinges?
Unfortunately the actual hinge breaks into pieces. If you look at the longer piece at the part where the pin goes through you'll see it is broken. That part should be a complete circle.

 Posted: Dec 15, 2017 11:00AM
Total posts: 1404
Last post: Jun 21, 2018
Member since:Oct 8, 2013
Cars in Garage: 0
Photos: 0
WorkBench Posts: 0
If you have the original hinges but they are just worn at the pins try looking at the pin rebuild kits sold for the mini hinges, they may well work for your hinges?

Mini's are like buses they come along in a bunch

 Posted: Dec 15, 2017 10:12AM
Total posts: 11
Last post: Jan 6, 2018
Member since:Dec 14, 2017
Cars in Garage: 0
Photos: 0
WorkBench Posts: 0
Quote:
Originally Posted by minimans
Look at the whole Triumph range  TR2/3 boot and bonnet hinges are very similar.
These are the closest yet. Not a perfect match, but the nearest I have seen. May have to acquire a set and see if they will work.

Many thanks for the suggestion! 

 Posted: Dec 14, 2017 06:17PM
Total posts: 1404
Last post: Jun 21, 2018
Member since:Oct 8, 2013
Cars in Garage: 0
Photos: 0
WorkBench Posts: 0
Look at the whole Triumph range  TR2/3 boot and bonnet hinges are very similar.

Mini's are like buses they come along in a bunch

 Posted: Dec 14, 2017 05:37PM
Total posts: 11
Last post: Jan 6, 2018
Member since:Dec 14, 2017
Cars in Garage: 0
Photos: 0
WorkBench Posts: 0
Quote:
Originally Posted by onetim
Worst case, with what you have there, it could re-made on a 3 axis CNC. Good luck.
Apologies for the oversight. The vehicle, as pictured, is a Zagato Zele, circa 1974, country of origin is Italy.

Much of the running gear of the Zele is Fiat, and rumors abound of the hinges being Fiat based as well but research and council with Fiat experts has not found a match there. I'm broadening my search in hopes that someone somewhere will possibly have a clue.

CNC looks more and more like the way these may have to appear! 

 Posted: Dec 14, 2017 01:03PM
Total posts: 8382
Last post: Jan 13, 2022
Member since:Feb 7, 2006
Cars in Garage: 0
Photos: 0
WorkBench Posts: 0
Triumph Spitfire trunk hinges ?

If in doubt, flat out. Colin Mc Rae MBE 1968-2007.

Give a car more power and it goes faster on the straights,
make a car lighter and it's faster everywhere. Colin Chapman.

 Posted: Dec 14, 2017 01:00PM
Total posts: 1007
Last post: Jul 19, 2022
Member since:Jul 24, 2014
Cars in Garage: 0
Photos: 0
WorkBench Posts: 0
Worst case, with what you have there, it could re-made on a 3 axis CNC. Good luck.

 Posted: Dec 14, 2017 12:58PM
Total posts: 10237
Last post: Apr 9, 2024
Member since:Mar 24, 1999
Cars in Garage: 0
Photos: 0
WorkBench Posts: 0
GB
A clue as to the vehicle's country of origin might help.

 Posted: Dec 14, 2017 12:27PM
Total posts: 11
Last post: Jan 6, 2018
Member since:Dec 14, 2017
Cars in Garage: 0
Photos: 0
WorkBench Posts: 0
Looking for a match for the hinges I have pictured. Early Mini hinges look real close but are a couple inches longer than what I'm looking for. Hours and hours online have yielded a lot of 'pretty close' matches but none as I need.

Chuck from MiniMania suggested posting on here hoping that a renowned hingeologist might see then and make the world sane again

Any help, recommendation, or possible direction to search would be very much appreciated. 



Found 31 Messages

Previous Set of Pages 1 | 2