Sound deadening/carpeting trunk

Posted by su8overdrive On 2012/10/12 16:03:11

I'd like to carpet the trunk of my '47 Packard Super Clipper. I don't care about originality in this area, since this was a production car, and even with expensive production cars, it was a case of building to a cost and getting it out the factory door. I long ago cleaned the entire trunk floor and compartment down to the healthy existing metal, leaving the mastic/asphaltic stuff on the wheelwheels, and brushed everything with a couple coats of black Rustoleum, after cutting an inspection cover over the gastank sending unit, something i recommend y'all do as Chryslers came with an access panel from the factory and i've no idea why Packard didn't bother. I made a new cover with a four x five-or-so-inch piece of aircraft aluminum and four sheet metal screws.

Obviously, i don't want to use the chintzy mat the factory used. Since prewar One-Eighties,and i believe Twelves, had carpeted trunks, thought i'd throw down the same nice carpet as i used inside the car, not hogshair and again, please, i don't care that hogshair is "correct." It's a goddam trunk.

A friend suggests before laying down the carpet i use Dynamat or Stinger Express Road Kill, akin to the stuff stereo/audio shops use to deaden sound. Is Road Kill overkill? I'm wondering if deadening the trunk would even make a difference sitting behind the wheel, driving down the road.

When we redid the car's interior, we used the usual jute underpad and then the carpet. I'm not interested in redoing that with the above sound deadening material, just the trunk, if, IF any of you think it's worth the bother. Otherwise, i'll just glue the carpet directly into the trunk, or maybe use a layer of felt underpad first,
then carpet and call it a day.

This ain't critical. Just wonder what some of you have done. Many thanks for any insight.