MTFCA Forum

Anyone know what the sill plates on a high radiator coupe are supposed to look like? Mine are painted black, are they supposed to be bare? Polished?

The door sill plates on my 24 Coupe are aluminum or something similar and not sheet metal. I don’t know if they were ever painted or not. Probably the same as a 25. They use to be reproduced but I don’t know if they still or. They didn’t look like they were ever painted when I restored my 24. They do have the Ford logo on them and I did polish them which lasted a while but they did eventually dull out like they were to begin with.

I believe the sill plates are zinc. This makes them easy to wear, and impossible to solder/weld to repair. Originally they were not painted. The reproduction plates I have seen were aluminium.

Allan from down under.

Here’s a picture of the sill plates in my 24 Coupe. I’m pretty sure they are original to the car. Yes I think they must be zinc as Allan noted. They seemed a little different than aluminum. The 24-25 Coupes are pretty much alike until the 25 had steel framed doors instead of the wood framed doors. The floorboards are original to the car also. I started to replace them but decided not to since this was my Grandfather’s Model T.