Running Board Covers and Trim

[stylingZ]

Dave I hope this goes well for you because I will be following in your footsteps once my rear steel fenders get extended to cover my Hoosier pro street radials and my running boards will be made to match. I want to recover them exactly like you are doing with the SS version of the trim for a 1930. I just removed my exposed hinges and installed Hagan hidden hinges...really turned out sweet, doors close so much more smoothly, and the body line is my sleeker now. Happy New Year

[Irelands child]

Dave I hope this goes well for you because I will be following in your footsteps once my rear steel fenders get extended to cover my Hoosier pro street radials and my running boards will be made to match. I want to recover them exactly like you are doing with the SS version of the trim for a 1930. I just removed my exposed hinges and installed Hagan hidden hinges...really turned out sweet, doors close so much more smoothly, and the body line is my sleeker now. Happy New Year

Styling,
If you widen the RB's and still want to cover them instead of painting, LeBaron-Bonney sell the covering by the yard and you can get either style, '28-'29 or '30-'31 that way. It just costs a bit more. Mac's '30 trim longitudinally is longer than the boards and needs trimming to length, width wise are about to size. Quality is pretty mediocre - but Mac's supplies most of the Model A vendors(including LeBaron -Bonney) with many items so it's a crapshot. I did find one gotcha - I need to grind the outer edge flange of the RB's to fit the trim which also means I need to weld replace the inner reinforcing. So much for having them painted and ready for coverings. Hope to have done today if I can get some sheared sheet metal - weather permitting (ice storm today in the great NE)

Which hidden hinges did you end up with - I couldn't find any that would work when I was in that mode so will use my modified originals as I'm way too far along to change that direction.

Keep me posted on progress - sounds like it is charging ahead.