1925 Coupe Sill Plates
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Tadpole
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- First Name: Tad
- Last Name: Glahn
- * REQUIRED* Type and Year of Model Ts owned: 1925 Coupe, 1926 TT Closed Cab, 1924 Runabout
- Location: Grant's Lick, Kentucky
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1925 Coupe Sill Plates
Anyone know what the sill plates on a high radiator coupe are supposed to look like? Mine are painted black, are they supposed to be bare? Polished?
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John kuehn
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- Location: Texas
Re: 1925 Coupe Sill Plates
The door sill plates on my 24 Coupe are aluminum or something similar and not sheet metal. I don’t know if they were ever painted or not. Probably the same as a 25. They use to be reproduced but I don’t know if they still or. They didn’t look like they were ever painted when I restored my 24. They do have the Ford logo on them and I did polish them which lasted a while but they did eventually dull out like they were to begin with.
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Allan
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Re: 1925 Coupe Sill Plates
I believe the sill plates are zinc. This makes them easy to wear, and impossible to solder/weld to repair. Originally they were not painted. The reproduction plates I have seen were aluminium.
Allan from down under.
Allan from down under.
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John kuehn
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Re: 1925 Coupe Sill Plates
Here’s a picture of the sill plates in my 24 Coupe. I’m pretty sure they are original to the car. Yes I think they must be zinc as Allan noted. They seemed a little different than aluminum. The 24-25 Coupes are pretty much alike until the 25 had steel framed doors instead of the wood framed doors. The floorboards are original to the car also. I started to replace them but decided not to since this was my Grandfather’s Model T.
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