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I was hoping someone would hop out to the garage and take a quick picture of the front and rear ends of the drip rails on a 55 or 56. It would not make difference what model, senior or junior.
I think that the front end of mine needs some reshaping.
Thanks

Don't think these will help because the rail is covered by the stainless but this is a 56 Caribbean HT.

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these help? do you need some sort of measurement?
these are from the executive hardtop, stainless removed.

FWIW, I borrow my friends shrinker/stretcher....very handy tool

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I got the drip rail welded into place yesterday morning. It almost looks like I know what I am doing.
Thanks for the pictures of both ends. It was a two-minute job with a small grinder to correct it.
The left-side drip rail should be here in a day or two and I get to do it all again.
I still have to seal the seams when done.
I am thinking about painting them with chrome paint and then adding a few layers of clear coat on top of the paint like the rest of the car. It is that or paint it to match the rest of the roof.

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I emailed them yesterday and I’ve dug out the one they used for the mold, hopefully it will help them and you!

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Thank's Henry
I saw your email.

I have been trying to get a hold of them for a couple of weeks myself with no response yet.

Not surprised…. Took me at least a year to get mine done and constant hounding.

The second drip rail arrived yesterday. Classics2Current sent me the wrong part again. Now I have 2 tri-five, right-side drip rails.
I called them today to get this fix and they asked me to send some pictures of the parts and the labels on them.

Now I wait and see what happens.

Classics 2 Current wanted me to send that stupid drip rail back to them. I can't believe they paid shipping to have me return a $5 strip of sheet metal. I am still waiting for the correct part from them.
I gathered all the wiper parts and cleaning them up. It took me a few minutes to figure out how to lock the spring back. Once the holes aligned the whole process clicked and I understand it now. I'll play with it tomorrow.

I am also digging out some of the stainless steel trim pieces to start cleaning and polishing some more of those. All this time I thought that was these foil pieces were tarnished from the gold-plated "The Four Hundred" script but it is painted that way. I guess it makes the gold script stand out better. I have a friend that has one of those Cricut, vinyl printer machines. I am going to see if he can make me a stencil for it.

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The valleys are supposed to be black on the whole length of each trim piece. The paint just happened to survive under the words and a few other places near the edges.

Some folks have redone those pieces with black striping tape. I had pretty good luck with a quality paint pen.