32 windlace and floormat question

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Floyd

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The first question is easy, is there a pad (jute?) that goes under the tan rubber floormat B35230 for open car (roadster)? Nothing in parts list but who knows what some of the terms mean.
Second question has to do with cowl and quarter panel upholstery. In the wonderful "book" it states that all bodies had windlace and in the body parts book it states a B-36720-B windlace assy for hinge and lock pillar. Is this the typical windlace we know? I am ordering upholstery and being told that no windlace, only hidem. (B-40-Deluxe) help, comments, pictures etc would be appreciated.
just trying to piece this thing together
Thanks
Floyd
 
Floyd,

Original floor mats are exceedingly rare and I've only ever had one car with the original mat intact (page 15-15). It had a thin jute pad glued to the underside of the rubber mat.

As for phaeton/roadster windlacing, the detailed listing in the body parts catalogue includes windlacing for the quarter lock pillar as you point out and the body illustrations in that catalogue show windlacing on the cowl side as well (and on both sides of the phaeton rear doors). I've seen a couple of phaetons with their original upholstery intact and a number of roadsters with original upholstery as well and none of them had any windlacing at the door openings. The closest anything comes to windlacing is the wire-on welting on the B and C pillars of a phaeton which is very close to the edge of the door openings.

Obviously that sentence beginning the second paragraph on page 15-8 needs to be modified, but before adding it to the next round of "additions and corrections", I plan to look at the engineering release forms to see if any windlacing was actually released for these body types at any time during the '32 model year (as opposed to planned, but not adopted). I'll check the floor mat release forms as well.

Dave
 
Dave
Thanks again, again and again for your vast knowledge and the sharing of information acquired from "millions" of hours of effort and research. There are a bunch of us amateurs trying to piece these old cars back together and you know better than anyone that '32 was a wild and crazy year for Ford in both product and documentation.
Thanks again,
We will keep coming up with crazy questions, but we will use the information
Floyd
 
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