painting floorboard

oldspert

oldspert

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I did a search and found lots of different opinions on painting the floor boards. My car will never be judged but I do not want bare plywood either, so it will be painted black, since I have a reproduction rubber floor mat, it will not show anyway.
 
Yep, nothing wrong with painting black with a good enamel. Helps keep moisture/rain from doing its dirty-work.
 
There could be many suggestions on this topic. In the past I have used 2 coats of Ebony Stain and three coats of spar varnish (sanded between coats). While you are at it why not add a heat baffle to the underside of the floor board to keep the exhaust pipe heat out of the car. My heat baffle is a small sheet of aluminum from Home Depot and 1 in. stand offs to provide an air space between the aluminum sheet and the plywood. Have fun with it. Ed
 
Originals were treated with a black preservative. I don't think I ever saw this anywhere, but I think a common preservative back then was creosote.
 
I think it was called Gilsonite which is a asphaltum product
Not sure floorboards were treated with that …..just painted
 
Sorry but used motor oil is not an “air freshener “ to me.
U must have some really bad stench in your car!!
Cadaver left there a few weeks?!!
 
Ed in Maine said:
There could be many suggestions on this topic. In the past I have used 2 coats of Ebony Stain and three coats of spar varnish (sanded between coats). While you are at it why not add a heat baffle to the underside of the floor board to keep the exhaust pipe heat out of the car. My heat baffle is a small sheet of aluminum from Home Depot and 1 in. stand offs to provide an air space between the aluminum sheet and the plywood. Have fun with it. Ed
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Interesting.... I did all of that with mine! Exactly.
 
Minwax Spanish Brown and top coated with spray Helmsman Spar Varnish. Spanish Brown is basically black. Came out nice.
 
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