[Marco Tahtaras]

Originally Posted by FL&WVMIKE

Marco Tahtaras .................
WOW ! Your curtains are in GREAT shape !
I noticed a couple differences. On mine, the door handle flap has three steel rivets, while yours has two. Could be an engineering change, made down the road. Also, yours seem to be the olive coloring, while mine seems to be more tannish. Mine might have faded, or it might be earlier, before Ford went to the olive. ???????
I have the original side curtains for my 1934 Phaeton and they are definately the olive color.
MIKE

We've drifted a bit off topic from the original question so I'll try to keep it brief. The fabric shown in my pics was Ford's "material specification" M-5072 which was first documented in 1929 for use on the Cabriolet. It was comprised of two layers of M-5074 drab roof fabric with "a suitable rubber cement interposed between". This fabric was later adopted for the Deluxe Phaeton, Deluxe Roadster, and convertible sedan.

I know from work I did years ago that later Fords changed the inner layer from drab to tan/brown but don't recall just when but think it was about 1936.

The pics below are NOS rear quarter curtains and top deck for a Deluxe Roadster