DOOR SEALS - ROOF RAIL SEALS
Pre-fifties vehicle door seals and roof rails were usually only extruded
rubber (lengths of rubber with the same cross-section at all points). Many seals were of
the sponge rubber type. Not many of the old shapes are made today, but there are some good
generic substitutes. This type of continuous seal had no molded parts. If you need these
parts, send us a short sample showing the complete cross-section, tell us the footage
required, and we will try to accommodate you.
On most fifties, sixties, and seventies, and even later models, vehicles used a roof
rail extrusion over the top of the door (sometimes they had molded ends and corners) These
rubber parts usually fit into metal tracks, or had metal inside the rubber to provide
rigidity. On hardtops, side windows rolled up against these rubber parts. Sedans with door
pillars used separate roof rails over each door. Convertibles used individual roof rail
pieces that bolted to the folding sections of the top, and often, they had metal inserts
in the rubber to provide rigidity.
We can make roof rails for vehicles. We need the customer to send us the right and left
side original roof rail rubber pieces in order to make molds and extrusion dies from which
we fabricate new replacement parts. When the parts arrive, we contact the client and give
him the cost of reproduction and an estimate of the time it will take to make
reproductions.
The same information in the preceding paragraph applies to making header seals.
