Re: Details of Rear Inside Trim Panels
Posted by Pgh Ultramatic On 2025/2/16 15:25:35
Door card construction:
The door cards are constructed in a very similar way to the trim panels already described. The different sections of vinyl are adhered to a backing, and any batting or sewing necessary is done, in the same way as shown before. Then these sections are adhered to the card backing. The metal armrest is assembled separately. On Senior cars, the top of the armrest is leather. It is in 2 sections sewn together, plus the horizontal insert piece that often goes astray. The insert is backed with 0.045" cardboard. The armrest is installed and the tabs bent over, along with all necessary trim. Then the clips are slotted in.
Shown below are a 56 Caribbean card (6482574-75) and an NOS 56 Patrician card 6482424-25 (missing trim and significantly faded from original black and light gray). Further down is a 55 Super card 258912-13. The card is a little unusual since no one ever trimmed the material properly for the window crank escutcheon. Turns out this is normal for the cars that did not have a separate part number for the power window type door cards. So this would have been an NOS panel someone got at one point. Speaking of NOS, the original leather had plastic sheeting over it to protect it, easily seen on the NOS Patrician card. It was caught by two of the armrest tabs, and the lower trim. Note the remaining plastic on the Caribbean card, which would have been torn off by the selling dealer long ago.
I am unsure what the black strips are on the cardboard for the Caribbean panel. I have seen the same on my Clipper Deluxe panels (258898-99). I assume it was pre-applied adhesive which has since long dried, but I don't know. It really resembles cheap paint, but I can't fathom why paint would be applied there for any reason whatsoever.
As you can see, there were various types of staples employed to help hold the material down to curve around the back of the card. There was no real pattern as far as I can tell; the unifying theme simply seems to be how difficult it is to get the material to hold a bend, so they were simply stapled where convenient.
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The door cards are constructed in a very similar way to the trim panels already described. The different sections of vinyl are adhered to a backing, and any batting or sewing necessary is done, in the same way as shown before. Then these sections are adhered to the card backing. The metal armrest is assembled separately. On Senior cars, the top of the armrest is leather. It is in 2 sections sewn together, plus the horizontal insert piece that often goes astray. The insert is backed with 0.045" cardboard. The armrest is installed and the tabs bent over, along with all necessary trim. Then the clips are slotted in.
Shown below are a 56 Caribbean card (6482574-75) and an NOS 56 Patrician card 6482424-25 (missing trim and significantly faded from original black and light gray). Further down is a 55 Super card 258912-13. The card is a little unusual since no one ever trimmed the material properly for the window crank escutcheon. Turns out this is normal for the cars that did not have a separate part number for the power window type door cards. So this would have been an NOS panel someone got at one point. Speaking of NOS, the original leather had plastic sheeting over it to protect it, easily seen on the NOS Patrician card. It was caught by two of the armrest tabs, and the lower trim. Note the remaining plastic on the Caribbean card, which would have been torn off by the selling dealer long ago.
I am unsure what the black strips are on the cardboard for the Caribbean panel. I have seen the same on my Clipper Deluxe panels (258898-99). I assume it was pre-applied adhesive which has since long dried, but I don't know. It really resembles cheap paint, but I can't fathom why paint would be applied there for any reason whatsoever.
As you can see, there were various types of staples employed to help hold the material down to curve around the back of the card. There was no real pattern as far as I can tell; the unifying theme simply seems to be how difficult it is to get the material to hold a bend, so they were simply stapled where convenient.
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