new headliner 1946 mercury

[oldskool]

i was first going to use a kit from labaron bonny but they have mostly cloth my interior is vinyl ,went to a pro looked at samples and he ordered the material and he made one from scratch as I didn't have an old one, it took him 3 full days to make and install it,im very happy with the results..not an easy job ,all back windows must be removed ,he also recovered the sunvisors...

[19Fordy]

Looks very nice. It wouldn't be difficult to remove that side panel under the quarter window and stretch out those wrinkles.

[oldskool]

Originally Posted by 19Fordy

Looks very nice. It wouldn't be difficult to remove that side panel under the quarter window and stretch out those wrinkles.

that panel will need some work , not part of headliner job, im going to remove it and reglue it no bigie

[waterboychuck]

The headliner looks great.

[oldskool]

thanks guys im glad I let a pro do it ,im pretty good at mechanical work but headliners are not my cup of tea especially vinyl ones

[rotorwrench]

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Lebaron Bonney does a lot for Ford cars but they don't do much for the Mercury cars. Headliners can be more complicated to make than a seat cover so they take time. Many folks that do auto trim for a living will purchase a headliner rather than make it themselves since they can't do it as cheep as the ones that are available. I do the same thing as long as the ones available are good quality. If there are none available a person has no choice. The OEM type materials available are limited too so a trimmer doesn't have much choice unless the customer wants a custom job and for that the sky and especially the pocket book are the only limits.

Vinyl is heavy and it doesn't stretch well so it is much more difficult to do headliners with. One of my Mercury cars had a vinyl headliner when I purchased it but all the thread was failing so it came apart at the seams. I don't think it can take heat as well as the cotton cloth does so it can shrink in excessive heat and put a heavy strain on the thread. I would use the heaviest thread available to do a vinyl headliner

[TJ]

Originally Posted by oldskool

i was first going to use a kit from labaron bonny but they have mostly cloth my interior is vinyl ,went to a pro looked at samples and he ordered the material and he made one from scratch as I didn't have an old one, it took him 3 full days to make and install it,im very happy with the results..not an easy job ,all back windows must be removed ,he also recovered the sunvisors...

I don't know if you actually talked with LB, but the last I knew they would do a vinyl headliner as long as they had the pattern.

[fordor41]

Originally Posted by oldskool

thanks guys im glad I let a pro do it ,im pretty good at mechanical work but headliners are not my cup of tea especially vinyl ones

We installed a head liner in our '41 Fordor that we got from J.C.Whitney 19 yrs ago. Is broadcloth and it fits like a glove. Only problem was instructions, or lack of, were for a '60's Chevy coupe. Only took us 12 hrs to install!

[oldskool]

Originally Posted by TJ

I don't know if you actually talked with LB, but the last I knew they would do a vinyl headliner as long as they had the pattern.

I did speak to LB and they due vinyl headliners but the problem would have been matching the material to my interior, my guy had tons of samples and matched what I had, LB sent me samples and nothing came close...