1965 Dodge Dart Charger

My guess at how the process might've been done to arrive at a 1-side stitch like this: Plastic starts out as flat strip. It's overlapped onto the hardboard panel, sewed, then the plastic is heated and bent into a channel shape around the edge of the hardboard. Perhaps more clues will present themselves when the plastic is removed from the hardboard.

Reproductions here and here (and likely made by REM and available thru Dante's). Don't know if any of these repro sources would include the plastic channel, though; you'd likely have to remove it from the originals and transfer it to the new ones.


Dan! Thanks for the input. It seems like the plastic flip was bent away while they were stiching the kick panel. These pictures is how it looked when I took it apart. It does not seems like it is some glue there!

Re the polish dept the upper left moulding is done. I started with the upper inner moulding around the rear window and after sanding it down I found two extremly small dents, one on each side. After some thoughts I started to figure out where it came from. I went and checked on my old Dart 270 that my buddy Johan bought and after a closer look those mouldings have the same small dents. My guess is that the stainless steel moulding was attached with a hammer made of plastic or hard rubber. Does it seems possible?