Garnish Molding Project

[Veemoney]

Ran across a local selling a 33 Plymouth coupe body, fenders, trunk and gauges most everything but the hood. We got to talking and turns out he had 2 window garnish moldings that were to big for the car.  I thought I could make them fit my coupe 1/4 windows so starts the project. 

They appeared to be for a larger 7 window car but the price was right so I picked them up.

One on the left is before cutting and the one on the right is rough cut and shaped. If you look close you can see a series of 4 cuts at the top of the curve and another 1 about halfway down on the same piece. The cuts allowed me to reshape the curve to fit my windows. They were pretty close to start with.

 

Cut a cardboard template to get the curves right and fine tuning the fit-up prior and during welding.

 

I picked up an oversized garnish molding for the back window many years ago but never cut it down so jumped on it next using another cardboard template for half the window to get the curves. Took about an inch off the height and roughly 2.25” off the width then took some curve out of the top cross piece. So far so good just needs some final prep and paint.

 

If anyone is looking for a 33 Plymouth coupe project The seller is about 20 minutes away from me and seems to be a good car guy with plenty of projects and easy to deal with.

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Edited November 27, 2021 by Veemoney
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[plymjim]

Nice job. Good practice for a top chop.

[Veemoney]

Thanks,

Not sure really what these moldings were originally off of. I was lucky they had most of the features required and only needed minor reshaping and cutting to size.