I've never had one with anything more than the rubber mat! Doesn't mean you can't put your own in there, though. Material of the day would have been felt, or a lot of it looked like oakum. You can get products akin to "Lizard Skin" that spray on to control that tin can sound. I have also seen truck that people applied undercoating to the underside of the hood and other areas. Not that it stayed on, mind you, but they applied it!


My 1955 GMC 450 Dump Truck
In the Stovebolt Gallery
Elderly Iron
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