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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 45 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 45 | OK, I have been lurking, but I cannot find the answer for this.
I just installed the headliner today. The cardboard original. It was a little troublesome, but not too bad.I have all the pieces, windshield trim, roof bow, I just don't have the trim piece tat goes around the door. I guess it is a windlace?? Where can I find what goes around the inside of the door? | | | | | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 3,597 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 3,597 | It is a set of flat steel strips that hold the windlace on as far as I know it is not reproduced by any of the vendors. If the strips are there the windlace itself is available from several sources. | | | | | Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 45 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 45 | | | | | | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 640 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 640 | JJ, that isn't correct for the '48. It'll probably work - with a lot of work - but the original has a boatload of screw holes in it/them. The windlace for the '47-'48 is different from later years. Like you said, they're just flat pieces with raised and rounded edges.
If you happen to come across a set, here's a hint for you. Install the windlaces before you install the and the glovebox. Why? Well, if you look at either end of your dash, on the sides facing the door jamb, you'll notice a small hole. This hole is there to provide access to one screw hole of the windlace. you put the screw on the screwdriver tip and, from inside the dash, put it through the hole and into the corresponding windlace screw hole.
Maybe you can get those two screws in withoug going from inside the dash, but I couldn't. I have an empty screw hole on either side. It wasn't worth taking everything apart just to install those two screws. No one has ever noticed, that I'm aware of.
Later years have a very different setup. You have to push the windlace through a channel. The '47-'48 system takes longer, but is probably easier, although poking holes in the rubber and having it all line up is a pain in the keister.
Good luck. | | | | | Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 45 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 45 | I am looking at it again, I wonder if I screwed some hide em (also called wire on)around the door, if it would look OK? | | | | | Joined: Jun 2011 Posts: 3 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Jun 2011 Posts: 3 | Hello JJ,
What did you end up using for the trim, I looked at your pic's nice job. I have a 1954 and need some finishing touches, I am wondering if what you used will work for mine also?
| | | | | Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 45 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 45 | Hello JJ,
What did you end up using for the trim, I looked at your pic's nice job. I have a 1954 and need some finishing touches, I am wondering if what you used will work for mine also? It will be a week or two before I get the parts....stay tuned!! | | | | | Joined: Jun 2011 Posts: 3 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Jun 2011 Posts: 3 | | | |
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