Roy, that was my probably not-so-funny joke, capitalizing but not radicalizing the word Muslin and innocently involving the 18th century Hessians (who I think played a part in the American Revolution)...but, the A model shop manual actually calls the material gauze. It's a loosely woven fabric, like a wound dressing...also known as, yes, "gauze".....it was an adhesive promotion between the woven fabric inner side of the headliner and the painted/primer's metal, but hardly anyone uses that anymore...any more than that still-sticky sealer between the threshold carpet and the aluminum strip and rubber quarter-round seal for the door bottom. Those who have removed that aluminum strip and then sat down on the threshold to work on the door know what I mean......
Anyway, if your original A doesn't show the gauze at the visible ends on an a or b pillar, then if may be due to random lengths being applied...or maybe skipped on that one...but most original 356 cars, right on through from early to late had some, even like the early 900-series cars, the late C's had thin strips of thin vinyl as needed to bridge overlaps or inconsistencies under the headliner material.
The front and rear pinch-welds where the windscreen gaskets reside had small barbed clips here and there where the headliner was glued over that edge, so no gauze is usually in those areas, only the vertical areas from where the wrapped headliner may stray, as you note.
Scraps of headliner material was also the material of choice to gasket the round rear torsion bar access covers on the rockers. I have to cut the vinyl discs with scissors, as the fabric doesn't allow the punch I made to make a clean cut....nothing is 'quick and easy' in restoration.
-Bruce
Anyway, if your original A doesn't show the gauze at the visible ends on an a or b pillar, then if may be due to random lengths being applied...or maybe skipped on that one...but most original 356 cars, right on through from early to late had some, even like the early 900-series cars, the late C's had thin strips of thin vinyl as needed to bridge overlaps or inconsistencies under the headliner material.
The front and rear pinch-welds where the windscreen gaskets reside had small barbed clips here and there where the headliner was glued over that edge, so no gauze is usually in those areas, only the vertical areas from where the wrapped headliner may stray, as you note.
Scraps of headliner material was also the material of choice to gasket the round rear torsion bar access covers on the rockers. I have to cut the vinyl discs with scissors, as the fabric doesn't allow the punch I made to make a clean cut....nothing is 'quick and easy' in restoration.
-Bruce
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