Re: Tonneau Cover bag
Posted by Leeedy On 2017/3/4 13:35:00
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Let the ride decide wrote:
55-56 parts book
31.0529 dust boot bag
Since the 24th thru 56th series used virtually the same top well, my ASSUMPTION is still that the dust boot bag is the same dimensions but used the top material for that series.
I looked for the blueprints, but I have had no luck, YET!
Of course there were other changes as well. Bracing, padding, seams, and above all, rear seat back interface. Of all these, the 1956 boot would have been most different with the completely new rear seat backrest design and thus new attachment.
Stack height (measurement of how flat the top folded into the body) varied as well over these years.
But again, the original question was about a junior convertible top boot bag from the 1930s which is a whole different animal in almost every regard: length, width, depth and more.
As for blueprints, I never owned any of those. But I sure had a lot of patterns for tops and top boots, including all of the Caribbeans. I gave all of the patterns I had to George Westmoreland who was man in charge of Acme Auto Headlining Company in Long Beach, California back then (1970s). I also know that I gave George a few top patterns and they had many more up in the racks and rafters at Acme back then. Of course the entire regime changed there and I have no idea what ever happened to all those old patterns... but there were a LOT of them for Packard. Another company in SoCal that had Packard convertible patterns (including for top boots) was Robbins Auto Top Company (in those days in Santa Monica and now out near Ventura). But again the old regimes that were there back then are long gone.
On the eastern end of the country back then was Electron Top Company and they also had a lot of patterns.
All these companies were more on the level of wholesale-distributors (with the exception of Robbins who also had a retail trim shop back in the day -they closed this when they moved from Santa Monica). So normally these were not operations that dealt with the public.
When it comes to patterns for the 1930s for convertible tops, top boots, boot bags, etc... this was already a disappearing entity by the 1970s. There were two companies in downtown Los Angeles still operating in the 70s. One was just a couple of blocks from the old Earle C. Anthony Packard dealership on Hope Street. These two companies not only had some 1930s patterns, but they were the sources of the most ancient automotive fabrics at that time on the West Coast. The names of these companies were Boething & Francis.... and Lindsay & Hall. No idea if either of them still exist, but they were once treasure troves of such stuff.This Post was from: https://packardinfo.com/xoops/html/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=188762