34 Rear Oh Sh!t handles

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My 34 Fordor Deluxe has an elastic rope weaved grab "handle" on the back of front seat and similar material broken short handles attached to the rear C pillars right and left. What are they officially called and where might one seek to find a pair?
 
The handles as you called them on the C pillars are "assist straps" .You see them from time to time on EBAY.The one behind the seat is I think the term commonly used is "robe rail".
 
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Deluxe fordors, tudors, and Victorias had the C or B pillar "assist loops" (B-56986-D, carried over from the '32 model year) and the deluxe fordors had the "front seat back robe cord" (B-163850-D, also carried over from the '32 model year). The terms in quotes are from the 1933-34 body parts list (catalog).
 
Most of the robe cords were actually a chain covered by a flexible tube with a material much like wind lace covering the tube. They generally had spring mount fitting to the back of the seat on each end. Ford even supplied a robe type blanket as an accessory item to be used as a lap warmer for passengers I assume. There were available up into the 50s on higher end fordor passenger cars.

The early versions of the robe cord were a bit more simplistic than later cars.
 
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