Trunk Curtain

tiger260

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Hi,

My car didn't come with a trunk curtain.

I have tried without success to find somewhere that sells them individually.
They seem to come with a complete interior kit.

Does anyone happen to have a photograph of one to give me an idea of what they look like.

Many Thanks.
 
Curtain Details

The vinyl curtain is made of similar material to those found on the seats. It is significantly thinner than the currently available and nearly perfectly matching surface appearance vinyls from known sources (S/S and Martha Wheat, possibly even your local fabric store if you knew what to look for). See side by side for thickness and surface grain appearance.

The curtain is stitched on all four sides:
- Top has a pocket to allow two separate thin (easily flexible) metal stiffeners, approximately ~1/2" in height and going half the span of the curtain equally. The metal bar allows eight rivets of a particular type to attach the top to the metal rail; hopefully you have existing holes there(?). the two in center are closer together.
- Bottom has a plastic clip sewn into the length of the curtain to allow it to clip to the lower part of the trunk (boot) below the riveted top portion. This allows the curtain to sag / fold loosely.
- Side stitches are common, single roll, black stitching.

Definitely one of the easier bits to gather together yourself, relatively speaking.

Per: 66' MKIA ...428... YMMV

Good luck,
 
Thank you for the info Derek.

My car is a MK1 but it looks like it should be the same.

I have a piece of vinyl kicking about so I will try making one.

It's a fine grain so isn't really correct but it's something to experiment on.
 
Thank you for the info Derek.

My car is a MK1 but it looks like it should be the same.

I have a piece of vinyl kicking about so I will try making one.

It's a fine grain so isn't really correct but it's something to experiment on.

The mk1 uses a fine grain vinyl and a series of snaps to hold the vinyl to the body, instead of the plastic channel.
 
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