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Renovating the interior of my 39 Six, working on rear panels below the push out windows and the arm rests. Who ever worked don this last, "fabricated" the arm rests out of plywood for the top, poorly formed cardboard for the sides and used right angle shelf brackets to hold it to the inner fender wells. Photo show what I am referring to. Anyone have pics, sketches or photos of what this is supposed to look like?

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Like this?




They all seem to have a bit of sag/curve to them at least what I have seen. Looks like it's factory. From the brochure:

Interesting, I think I like the curve in the arm rest. Did you do this?
Appreciate the information, really trying to figure out what is under Thai / how it is built and attached to car

I would almost bet they are made the same way the later Clipper armrests were made. The bottom or base form on the Clipper item is a shaped but mostly two sided pressed composition material -- a very heavy cardboard like stuff with a stamped sheet metal piece stapled to the base form that forms the top.

The armrests are held in position by a combination of the seat pushing against the side of the armrest with fore and aft position held by another piece of metal containing a slot which is also stapled to the composition material. The slot slides over a tab welded to the wheel well. On Clippers there is also a sheetmetal screw at the very bottom which goes into a metal channel welded to the floor that also helps support the seat cushion.

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Awesome information, thank you!
One final question, is the front edge of the arm rest “base” vertical and does not go all the way to the floor?

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Nope just found stuff by searching online. There's 2 hyperlinks in my post if you want to see more.

I don't own one myself so I can't really give you any deeper info.

All I can say is: if you want that curve, you can steam plywood (actual plywood not OSB) then clamp it to an exaggerated mold to adjust its shape. For just a bend you would just clamp near the middle around the side of some cylinder maybe. And if the bend is not quite right, re-steam and try again.

Here are a couple of shots of the original from my 37 115c
I have other shots on my phone that I'll upload

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thank you Larry, much appreciated

rear 37 Covered
Looked like yours would have been almost straight down on the front with the ash tray.
Thinking that you could do a papier mache' using glue as a binder for strength.
Mine were moulded fiber material using a black color and a papier mache like consistancy.
I have found JB WELD is a great repair material for broken or damaged sections.

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Much appreciated all, thank you !