Help needed please - interior questions

[DaveB9]

I have done some searches and looked at various interior threads, but still have a few questions on bits and pieces for the interior of my 61 convertible. If anyone has any tips or suggestions on these I'd really appreciate it.

First up, the car came with no sunvisors. I bought this TMI set, which seem OK, but have no means of attaching them to the stems on the mirror! Has anyone fitted a set of these? Is the idea that you just punch a hole and slide it on? In some pictures of originals I can see a clamp screw. Has anyone found any form of clamp which could be used? As its a vert, I think just making a hole and pushing them on is likely to lead to them disappearing over my shoulder at speed!

The second question relates to the windscreen pillars. There was a piece of black vinyl on each one between the windscreen rubber and the A-pillar window seal. They were black, but may have been painted with vinylkote or similar. Looking at pictures it appears they were always black though, regardless of the colour of the interior, sort of continuing the dashpad up the pillars. Can anyone confirm this?

Next, the A-pillar carpet holding strips. DOes anyone have the dimensions and shape of the hardboard piece that fitted between this strip and the front bulkhead?

My car was missing them. I can probably figure something out, but it would be great to know the correct shape and dimensions. I think they went over the vertical heater pipe and then bent at an angle at the front. Were they glued to the inner wing at the front? There is no channel for them to sit in at the front edge.

Finally, what is this seal that went between that vertical A-pillar piece and the body? It seems like it goes between the windlace strip and the body, but I only have shreds of it left, so have no idea what shape it was originally!

All help much appreciated.

[Disc]

1. Yeah, punch a hole and push the visors on the stems. The inside stucture of the visors is stong enought to hold.

2. Always black!

3. I can post a pic of such.

4. That is the remains of the hardbord of question 3!
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[DaveB9]

Thank you Disc! That is really helpful. Now I just need to find the old vinyl from the A-pillars to make templates - I swore I logged and indexed everything, but what do you know, no sign of them on my index!

Any picture of the boards would be super-helpful, then I can make my own templates against the car.

I hadn't thought that the black bits might be remnants of the boards! I think you're right though - I thought it was just very dried out rubber! It is a similar material to the trunk liner then. So the metal strip is screwed to the A-pillar with the board held between the two and the screws going through it and then just the carpet sits in the channel of the metal strip? I had thought that the board would slot into the channel and the carpet was glued to the board! The problem with so much being missing.

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[Disc]

[DaveB9]

Brilliant! Thanks so much: another piece of the puzzle solved!

From the look of that there is a fold at each end, so now I just need to find some board that is strong enough but allows for some folding.

[DaveB9]

This stuff looks the ticket: https://www.woolies-trim.co.uk/c-146-millboard

I'll post up how I get on in my resto thread. Thanks again Disc!

[sputnick60]

Have a look at this thread for photos of the area..
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8953706

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[DaveB9]

Thank you all, super-helpful. I am not sure anyone here imports Sewfine parts, which is a shame because at $60 a pair those boards are pretty reasonable. Shipping and import taxes may make them less attractive from here! I might ask though. Otherwise, more pictures is going to make them easier to make at least.