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hey everyone!

i have a 24 touring i bought back in January, that came with side curtains. the rear curtains are fitted on and are nice and tight, but the 2 front ones don't have any way to connect and i don't know how to fasten them on. i have the connectors, and everything, but i'm only 13 and don't have any experience on things like that. here is some pictures...

thanks in advance,

Carson Combs

Wow, you are one lucky kid, 13 years old and you own a 1924 Model T Touring car! Welcome to the forum!

Here is a link to an old thread showing some pictures of 1924 touring cars with the front side curtains mounted.

http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/80 ... 1258043640

Here is a link to another old thread showing original roadster curtains, but many of the features will be common to the front touring curtains.

https://mtfca.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=2907

The front edge of the curtain mounts in three places - the bottom and middle have metal trimmed holes (most folks use common sense fastener holes, but Ford may have used Anzo fasteners (Larry Smith is the expert on that). The common sense fastener holes fit over hooks screwed into the windshield frame. Note that the bottom hook is shorter that the middle hook. The vendors sell a good reproduction of the short bottom hook, but the longer middle hook is harder to find. Lang's may have some of the original, longer middle hooks. The top corner of the curtain has a female anzo snap that connects to a male anzo snap on the top's rain flap. Anzo snaps are getting hard to find, so most folks use modern snaps.

The rear edge of the front curtain connects to the front of the rear curtain via common sense fasteners. The top of the curtain attaches to the inside of the top bow using common sense fasteners (although Ford may have originally used Anzo, check with Larry again).

Here is another link to an older thread where Larry Smith talks about side curtains:

viewtopic.php?t=9772

I found this diagram elsewhere on the forum, it may be an illustration from a vendor's instructions: