12-05-2018, 03:53 PM
(11-05-2018, 09:26 PM)Ian Williams Wrote: James, would you please take some photographs of your car and and of the sound deadening dimpled cardboard. Would anyone know when Austin first used this material, was it with the advent of the Mk2 Ruby or earlier?
Ian, I see that the information has been kindly already supplied. Is that enough? I'm hoping to take the car to a Southern Classics Meeting at the Bluebell Railway tomorrow and I'll be 'chuffed' in more ways than one if the weather is better! After a period of about 7-10 days of 'scorchio' weather typically it has started pouring here in the South. While checking the car over I was surprised to see the material even on the inside of the metal spare wheel cover. Sadly, it is missing in other places like the floor but noise surprisingly doesn't seem worse for this and understandably the material was the same shape as the rubber mats. It was fairly grubby when I removed it about 30 years ago not long after purchasing the car in 1982. One of the reasons the car is fairly unmolested is that it was displayed in a local BMC Dealership (Hares of Rustington) for the previous at least 25 years, that plus my ownership of 36 years, takes its 'known history' to over 60 years and the car's mileage to just over 107,000 from new.