Hi Folks,

A friend of mine has a very nice Sunbeam Talbot 90 Mk IIA drop head
coupe (http://www.practicalclassics.co.uk/vehicle/by-id/795/). He went
out to tweak the engine today only to find that the bonnet release
cable has snapped somewhere in the works and he can't get the bonnet
open.

I am sure there must be some way round this - surely even the UK motor
car industry couldn't make a car that had to be scrapped for a broken
bonnet cable! Does anyone know for sure what that way might be, so I
can pass it on to him?

Ian
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"Ian Johnston" <ian.groups (AT) btinternet (DOT) com> wrote

If you lie on your back under the front and look up you should see where the
cable is attached to the bonnet release. You need a very long screwdriver
or a suitable metal bar, reach up with this and tweak the catch operating
lever in the direction that the cable would be pulling it if it was working.

Ron Robinson

"Yippee" <yippee.107 (AT) intuh (DOT) net.invalid> wrote


Ah, but those were only the early days of the 'sealed for life' concept...

Ron Robinson

the bonnet and looking at the release mechanism work out how to bend a
coathanger into a hook so that you can operate the release through the
grill, practice a couple of times on the car you can get into before trying
it out on the one with the broken bonnet cable.
of course in this case, finding an identical car might not prove so simple!