I've been trying to get the Provincial's floor ready to recieve some fibreglassing and also trying to rustproof some areas that will be closed up/covered up eventually.
The PO let this car set with it's original, rubber matting in place for years. This while the car was covered by a "tarp" that did more to hold moisture in than keep it out. The jute backing on the rubber matting was an excellent nursery for tinworms to incubate and feed. Consequently, this "California Car" has some rust in it's floorboards. Even a bit in the front too as carpeting served to play sponge when shrunken door seals let rain find it's way inside.[V]
The rear floors are a bit of a challenge as I want to anchor seat belts there and there's not much left to anchor to![B)] I'm thinking of a sub-floor bar (crossmember, if you will)that would attach to the frame rails on either side. Easy enough EXCEPT for the damned driveshaft and it's floor hump. Another approach is a heavy, triangular plate that would fair into the frame rail aft of where the belt mount points would be.
I'm going for 3-point belts and the B-pillar part is easy. In fact, if the floorboards weren't so moth-eaten, I'd just slap a big piece of reinforcement plate beneath them and be happy with it. I DON'T wanna put new floorpans in this thing.
[img] http://images.andale.com/f2/115/106/...55_RRFloor.jpg [/img]
Another thing that I addressed was cleaning out in the bottom of the A & B-pillars. It's solid inside these but I can't, for the life of me, figure what was served by the body line when they obviously stuck the nozzel of the Dum-Dum gun inside the bottom holes of these pillars and squeezed off a large dollop into them.
The stuff didn't lay down and really seal anything. After 50 years it's just IN THERE, like a fossilized pile of dog doo!
Oh - it's STUCK to a good degree, but it sealed nothing but the bit of floorboard that it leaned upon. I spent a couple of HOURS digging it all out. Must've did away with 2 useless pounds of baggage!
Note in both pics, you can see the little die-cut teeth that your windlace is held in with. You insert the tab of the windlace and then tap the tooth down to hold it fast.
Miscreant at large.
1957 Transtar 1/2ton
1960 Larkvertible V8
1958 Provincial wagon
1953 Commander coupe
1957 President 2-dr
1955 President State
1951 Champion Biz cpe
1963 Daytona project FS
The PO let this car set with it's original, rubber matting in place for years. This while the car was covered by a "tarp" that did more to hold moisture in than keep it out. The jute backing on the rubber matting was an excellent nursery for tinworms to incubate and feed. Consequently, this "California Car" has some rust in it's floorboards. Even a bit in the front too as carpeting served to play sponge when shrunken door seals let rain find it's way inside.[V]
The rear floors are a bit of a challenge as I want to anchor seat belts there and there's not much left to anchor to![B)] I'm thinking of a sub-floor bar (crossmember, if you will)that would attach to the frame rails on either side. Easy enough EXCEPT for the damned driveshaft and it's floor hump. Another approach is a heavy, triangular plate that would fair into the frame rail aft of where the belt mount points would be.
I'm going for 3-point belts and the B-pillar part is easy. In fact, if the floorboards weren't so moth-eaten, I'd just slap a big piece of reinforcement plate beneath them and be happy with it. I DON'T wanna put new floorpans in this thing.
[img] http://images.andale.com/f2/115/106/...55_RRFloor.jpg [/img]
Another thing that I addressed was cleaning out in the bottom of the A & B-pillars. It's solid inside these but I can't, for the life of me, figure what was served by the body line when they obviously stuck the nozzel of the Dum-Dum gun inside the bottom holes of these pillars and squeezed off a large dollop into them.
The stuff didn't lay down and really seal anything. After 50 years it's just IN THERE, like a fossilized pile of dog doo!
Oh - it's STUCK to a good degree, but it sealed nothing but the bit of floorboard that it leaned upon. I spent a couple of HOURS digging it all out. Must've did away with 2 useless pounds of baggage!
Note in both pics, you can see the little die-cut teeth that your windlace is held in with. You insert the tab of the windlace and then tap the tooth down to hold it fast.
Miscreant at large.
1957 Transtar 1/2ton
1960 Larkvertible V8
1958 Provincial wagon
1953 Commander coupe
1957 President 2-dr
1955 President State
1951 Champion Biz cpe
1963 Daytona project FS
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