Back in the 40's, guys used to use plain ol' daily newspapers wadded up & stuffed inside all the door panels & deck lids, quarter panels etc. for sound deadning, especially in the roadsters. When building my '32 roadster in 1962, it was a flashback in time as I carefully extracted these tightly compressed pages of the L.A. Times & opened them up to read the old time dates from 1940 to 1947! Made sure ALL the paper was removed before visiting the body man. How about you guys?----Find simalar stuff in your panels? Later, found out that a good item for sound deadning was a water mixed black substance from 3M that was easily applied with an old paint brush, & used under all my body, fenders, running boards, gas tank, front splash pan with tremendous results now still there since 1962. This works great under the fenders to resist gravel & "Starbursts" from stones too.----------Don
yes sir.... my RPU was a dragcar inthe 60s and when i got it i noticed newspapers in the door so i carefully took a bit off the roll and found that it was dated 1962 LA times so there it will stay! thats cool that you have the same! chuck
I found 1950's Phoenix AZ newspapers in the trunk lid of my '32 3 window and a 1957 church bulletin in the pocket of my original '32 5 window.
My '30 roadster had 1938 Pasadena newspapers in the doors, took forever to get them cleaned out. They were as dry as a popcorn fart.
friend of mine bought a deuce roadster that the Ayala bros. in Cal. used to own; he got several garbage bags worth of 50"s newspapers out of the nooks and crannies.
Pieces that I scanned from my 32 Roadster. The doors and the rumble lid are packed solid with the LA Times and the LA Mirror...Jan and February 1951. I left it all but these pieces to do***ent it as being an early So Cal hotrod. It's packed so tightly that you can only peel small pieces off. The cl***ified section had 2 1949 Mercury convertible ads for 1500 each. They were dealer ads. I almost had a heart attack when I found the "insulation" in the p*** door and immediately pulled the rest of the panels. Mine
My 1940 Pontiac had an entire June 7 1944 NY newspaper rolled up under the front seat. Headline is the D-Day invasion. Still got it...
Not as bad as you might think. The pieces wouldn't lay flat for a picture so I put them in the scanner to get a good copy. The doors had been painted a few times over the years. So it was not exposed to to light. I took a friend with me to look at it when I was buying it. He pulled me aside and said the doors are fibergl***!! Listen to the way that they shut. I triple checked and they were indeed steel. The interior door panel was card board with loop pile carpeting glued on. The newspaper does make a difference.
My roadster had LA Times in the doors ... 1946 dates. And a few coins ... all before 1940. ( photo taken at Limework's Open House { Aussie's Steve's place }... 2010 ) Wishing something REAL ... BAD on the guy who stole AussieSteves 32 California license tags
off topic car,but back in my HS days(late80'searly 90's),my buddy bought a 69 camaro,started to get it ready to repaint,took off the vents in the door jamb area on those cars and found an early 7o's ******* mag some one stashed in there,
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