66 Kick Panels, wind lace and sill plates

[Anthony G.]

Gang,

Picked up my new kick panels at Carlisle and am installing them, but I have a wonder where the windlace goes. My assembly manual is no real help and the ones I am replacing just hacked the ends of the windlace right off. Yeech.

It kinda looks like it should go under the big end of the sill plate, but the windlace is too thick for that. I suppose if that is the correct place, then I could scoop some of the guts out of the end and make it fit.

Anybody have any ideas or pix?

Tony

[John H.]

Re: 66 Kick Panels, wind lace and sill plates

Tony -

The "core" inside the windlace disappears near the bottom so only the vinyl thickness remains, just as it goes under the front edge of the sill plate; photo below is from Dave Zuberer, I believe.

[Anthony G.]

Re: 66 Kick Panels, wind lace and sill plates

Great photo.

I'll really have to pull alot of the guts out of that core to make it look like this though. I bet I have 2-3 inches more core (hey, that rhymes) than I need on my new kick panels.

Odd that Corvette America would make them that far out of synch.

Tony