Sound deadening in a roadster door

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Originally Posted by john charlton

Australian open cars were part wood construction ,body sills etc etc . This was to add local content and cut down import duties . Other Commonwealth cars were all steel like USA and Canada as there was no local car builder to protect like Holden in OZ .Some OZ built open cars are here in UK but are a pain to restore as the sheet metal has to be adapted to accept repro steel subrails etc etc . To replace the wood would be like a cabriolet restoration for sure .


John in lovely summers day Suffolk County England .

The 28/29 open doors here were all steel. The 1930 open doors were wood framed and a steel skin. Nothing in the middle of those that I know of as the wood frame would dampen the noise. Pooch is talking about the 28/29 doors.