Is it possible that is your center bow and it just got bent (oops)???
From what I read in this
earlier thread on '49 headliner installs if yours is an early '49 it would have had a screw mounted bow instead of the late '49 and later AD floating bow.
Yes/no/maybe so???
Dan
Thanks Dan
Nothing is impossible! This one "appears" to have a machine brake bend (the slot for the cardboard is not squished) but yeah, nothing is impossible. The center bend looks too sharp an angle to belong in this truck - but also too sharp for my other project (same era, also GM and most things are pretty rounded). I am wondering if perhaps its actually out of an earlier vehicle altogether - possibly actually installed in my truck by someone in years gone by just to support whatever headliner they had on hand??
Yes there are screw holes in the center bow support and I "remember" (which is never a great thing to trust, I've come to learn) unscrewing those. I see the photo in that thread with a center bow and that looks like what I was thinking. It has to be around the shop somewhere!
