How do you put two white floor mats together to cover the floor board of a torpedo? All I can get is an additional 3'' and I need at least 6'' to get it to the seat riser.
I once glued two parts of white floor mat together using vinyl flooring cement and a heavy linen cloth on the underside. Your cuts have to be almost perfect, and best if at the bottom of ribs or pyramids. It looked pretty good, but it was not for a show car. Burlap would probably work well and for many early cars would even be correct.
I toyed with welding the mat with a hot iron. It produces hard spots and long strings of mat material. I never went far enough to produce a usable result because for what I was doing, the glued mat worked fine.
Drive carefully, and enjoy, W2
I did mine and opted to not attempt it perfectly and try to blend two mats together.
What I did was to go with a black ribbed mat that had the ribs running parallel to the heelboard. It was wide than I needed and I just tucked it under the white mat,
When I cut the new mat to fit in the car I first used some heavy construction paper to get the contours of where it would fit and taped pieces of that together to make a template for cutting the mat.
It worked pretty well.
Herb
It occurs to me. One of the first "antique" automobiles I had was a 1929 REO Flying Cloud semi sport coupe (always liked coupes). I drove it to high school many years ago (graduated a year before David Dewey). What was unusual about the car, is that the seat cushion sat directly on the floor. The shift lever was shorter than the more common not semi sport models, and the seat sat further back than usual for the time. It was all original that way. And something else that was original was the floormat. Apparently, rather than make a special longer mat for the car, there was a piece that exactly matched the back several inches of the main mat vulcanized underneath the main mat to add about three inches. It matched the curves around the seat, the pyramid pattern and border of the main mat and was very well attached. With the door open, looking down at the floor, it could be seen easily. But it looked like it belonged.
What did Ford do for the early torpedo roadsters?
Drive carefully, and enjoy, W2
Re WAYNES QUESTION ---WHAT MAT DID FORD USE FOR THE TORPEDO BODY ?? . ---THE TORPEDO HAD IT'S OWN LONGER MAT.
Thank you, Bob T. I thought they did, but did not know. When I had that REO, even though I was only 18, I thought it was odd and interesting how they solved the problem of needing a longer mat. I sold the car a few years later having decided that 1929 was newer than I wanted to play with.
I know that there are companies that will make these custom mats for a price. However, I do not have any information about them anymore. I keep hoping someone will post that information about them.
I would imagine one could check with some of the one and two cylinder car Registries through the HCCA. I know they sometimes have them made.
Just a thought.
Drive carefully, and enjoy, W2