Body molding

[Mertz]

I’m getting ready to put the fenders on the front of my 1940 pickup. The old welting, hood lace and body moldings were held in place with pins. Is that the way it is still done or are we using weather stripping adhesive. 

[Los_Control]

I'm curious to see what others have to say ..... Mine were like a twisted nail that held them in place.

To be honest I do not think I can install them a 2nd time in the same hole and expect them to hold as well as the first time they were installed.

 

For originality I suppose you could install them .... I suspect some sort of adhesive here would work better.

 

Good looking truck.

[Mertz]

The twisted nail held the hood fabric. The rest are pins. I don’t think I can get them in the same holes either. I might glue them on and take an awl from behind, poke a hole and insert pins

[JBNeal]

Roberts carries these spiral shank nails, but looks like they've gone up price wise since the last time I checked...might want to reach out to them to verify before ordering...VPW might also carry them

 

https://www.robertsmotorparts.com/hood-lace-nails-each-used-with-fabric-style-hood-lace-see-t11-1

[Mertz]

Mopar mall has 6ft of lace and 20 nails $24.66

Edited May 10 by Mertz
Miss spelled

[Mertz]

I ended up using 3M weather stripping adhesive.  The stuff sticks very well. I tried using my rivet gun on the body molding but it is too thick. I could have used rivets on the welting but the stuff I got from Andy was extremely flexible so I could not get things tight with the rivets. I used the adhesive on the edge off the bead only then cut slots for the bolts. I have some more welting coming from another source and hopefully it will be better and easier to apply. 

[Mertz]

I got the new welting today and it is more like I expected. The fabric behind the piping is glue together as one piece. Here is how I attached the body molding. As a wood worker you can never have enough clamps.