Re: Headliner Retainers 51 Club Sedan

Posted by Larry51 On 2014/7/14 18:57:25

Thanks for that info BigKev. Helpful about the fibre board panels in the B-pillars, I wasn't sure about that area especially how they are secured to the body.

I have seen your pics of the headliner retainers and headliner in your car but as mentioned above the 2-door Club Sedans had the headliner retained a different way in them. I was looking through all my bits and pieces for the tooth strips that would fit above the rear quarter windows in my '51 and couldn't find any apart from the front ones (which fit same way as on a 4-door) so I started thinking about how it was done.

There is no space / room for a tooth strip to go above rear windows and no holes in the roof 'beam' where one was screwed into it. There are just tack holes up and under the window frame (- some with the tacks still there).

Then Brian posted the pics above which confirmed what I was thinking. I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has a '51 or similar Club Sedan who has some tooth strip retainers but it seems very likely that Packard did it with no strips, and just held the liner under the flex channel with tacks.