Thanks, John-
I know I don't want cardboard, but wonder about the 1piece design rather
than the 2-piece that I have now. That would eliminate the floating bow in
the middle, I assume...?
Smokey Culver
'50 3600 5-window (mine)
'56 3600 (hers)
League City, Texas
-----Original Message-----
From: John Rockefeller <dbr@powerweb.net>
To: Charles Culver <sculver@iwl.net>
Cc: oletrucks <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Date: Sunday, May 28, 2000 11:04 PM
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Headliner question
>I replaced the headliner in my 49 3100 two summers ago with a new cardboard
>liner and was really dissapointed. The liner kept sagging when the weather
>got a little humid. Well here in Wisconsin in the summer that's about
>every day.
>I replaced the cardboard with a tin headliner that I made out of a piece of
>flashing
>tin that I had left over from a roofing job I did on my house. I traced
>the cardboard
>and cut the tin to shape and size, then I guled a piece of black vinyl, the
>kind you
>use as a table cloth, to the tin and no more sagging. You can't tell it's
>not cardboard
>unless you tap it. I love it! If it's a choice between a sagging piece of
>cardboard
>and a fiberglass headliner.......I'd go with the fiberglass.
>
>John "Rock" Rockefeller
>1949 3100 "Eeyore"
>
>
>
>----------
>> From: Charles Culver <sculver@iwl.net>
>> To: oletrucks list <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
>> Subject: [oletrucks] Headliner question
>> Date: Saturday, May 27, 2000 1:54 PM
>>
>> I'm about to replace the headliner in my '50 3600. What I have is the
>> 2-piece cardboard, with the floating center bow. I see that American
>> Classic Truck Parts sells both the 2-piece cardboard headliner, which
>would
>> replace what I have, and also a 1-piece fiberglass headliner. Has anyone
>> had experience with the 1-piece fiberglass headliner in an AD truck? I
>> would prefer this to the cardboard if it will fit, but would like to hear
>> from someone else who knows first hand.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Smokey Culver
>> '50 3600 5-window (mine)
>> '56 3600 (hers)
>> League City, Texas
>>
>>
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