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I couldn't let Don's '37 have all the uphosltery love.

So I figured I'd better finish come items on the Jackard.

I made a new upholstery cover for the rear package tray area. I still have the original one which is ripped, brittle, and cowlboard piece is torn up pretty badly as it was originally glued to the package tray and which was replaced in the past. Now I've replaced it again and the shape needs to be different. The original convertible coupe seat has a pretty flat back, the split coupe seat forms a shallow curve.

So added a piece to the front edge of the package tray to conform to, and support that curve. Then I made a new piece upholstery panel. The panel needs to be 56/57" wide. Any cowlboard sold locally is only 32" long. So 1/8 coated cardboard to the resume. Cheap, available, and $14 for a 4' x 8' piece. So I ripped a 22" piece from thay 60" long and refined the shape from there.




The shaped it to match the front curve needed.

Then I covered it with a marine grade vinyl. On the 37 Juniors, only the front seat was originally leather. The degraded original one I have is an early vinyl/leatherette material.




And glued it all in place and added some piping along the edge.




And the glued the panel down the package tray and wrapped the upholstery over the leading edge.




While I was working on uphosltery, I decided to wrap the wood pieces on the B-Pillars and also install the windlace.




The seat side panels still need to be done, that is leather job and requires sewing. So not it.

Can’t wait to see the Jackard back together and on the road!

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Me neither!

And back to body work. Stripping parts to bare metal is always a messy job.

The rear passenger fender for sure looked better than it is. Last year I pretty much just gave it a cursory sanding and rattle can painted to black.

This time I stripped it all the way down. Lots of pitting, rust, and nasty undercoating.

The leading edge which mounts up against the running board is pretty rotten. It's going to need a 4"-6" patch there. Also the mounting flange where it mounts to body, the edge is pretty rotten away.

There there are pinholes in several places.







But from this angle, it doesn't look half bad.




Pretty sure the undercoating did the opposite of what it was supposed to do. As the bottom side is super heavily pitted.

BTW, an unmounted 37 Junior rear fender has the rigidity of a wet noodle. Which makes trying strip it oh so much "fun".

Both of my rear fenders had serious cancer where they bolted to the running boards. Here is one after being stripped down.




Here it is after some new sheet metal…

With some of these very common rot areas, while not a panacea, a think a good quality epoxy primer can help. Also, we dont drive these cars in all weather, or store them outside, like people did when they were new.

Also, I think, in particularly, the rivets that are in the end of the running board rub the paint off front of the fenders in that and gouge them. Then the rot has a perfect starting place.

So either having them as flush as possible and/or having a thin rubber strip between the board and the fender to help buffer it can't hurt.