Irelands Child (I'm assuming you are of Irish descent; I am only about 25% Irish, 50% German and 25% Swedish, but born in the U.S. of A.!), Thank you very much for the links. The guy at Metro Rubber was very helpful and I ordered a length of rubber from a Corvette fender welt which has a crosssection 9/16" thick x 7/8" wide with a 1/8" groove 3/8" deep out of sponge rubber. That width and the sponginess should entirely fill the hole around the column (hopefully) and give a factory appearance with the cut hidden at the bottom under the column. I was surprised I could order as little as a foot but I ordered 4' to try an addtional piece across the top of my homemade floorboard tunnel as a seal. I have tried to make my new floor pretty much like the stock Model A floor board. If that works I plan to order more for around my door jambs and the edge of the rumble seat area. The doors on the fiberglass body are reasonable replicas of stock doors but the door wells are quite different from stock with a thick lip around the edge and this rubber may work well there. I once had a "real" '29 roadster body so I am familiar with the stock shapes but it was rusted so badly that I gave up on it and sold the whole thing; basically it was more archaelology than auto repair! Another item of interest is a new column boot kit from Speedway which I ordered and should cover the paint scratches on the bottom of the column. The boot is made up of a universal tilt mount with a 4 1/2" diameter ring to clamp the faux leather boot, part Nos. 446-2401 and 446-2405 in the new No. 247 catalog as a new item.
Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder