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Need some help again please. A some time in the distant past, someone added a more modern accelerator pedal to my '31 sedan which I do not want to re-install. I see, from the attached photo I found online of another car, that originally there is some sort of foot rest below the accelerator button bolted to the floor. Does someone have any details on this? It looks like a piece of flat steel bent into a rectangle. Doesn't seem hard to do, I just don't have the dimensions, etc.
I appreciate all the help I have been getting from everyone on the forum. I retired at the end of last year and finally have some time to devote to getting this old bucket of rusty bolts back together, so I expect I will be littering the forum with posts.

if it is the same as the one on the 129 i can get you pictures, have a ton of them when i redid my floors. i know the plates and such are different, but the rest is probably essential the same concept. single slotted flat head screw through plate with a washer and nut holding it in place, could make one really easy with flat stock , vise, and a negotiator (hammer/press), and a drill to put in hole for screw.

seems to be a piece of flat bar, bent into a trapezoid

Here is a 1931. Looks to be pretty much the same as 29.

Thanks. Looks like you could ruin a good shoe with that support. Do you know how wide and deep it is and the width of the steel stock?

A little hard to measure, standing on my head draped over the seat, and with the floor pad in place.
I get overall width of 2 3/4 and 1 3/4 floor to top, width of the steel is 7/8. I wear hiking shoes 365 days a year…no damage!

It does look easy to make if you decide you want to buy one I have the attached. Send me a pm if interested.

Dave

Hello Bama31,
I measured the foot rest and here is what I got: 1/8" thick steel, 13/16" wide, 10 1/2" long. (may need longer to allow for bends).
2 1/4" long at the overlapped mount base. 2 3/4" long at the aft footrest face. 2" long side legs.
1 1/2" long inner base overlap-making outer base overlap the full 2 1/4" length.
1/4" diameter machine countersink common slotted screw- screw head 1/2" diameter- length unknown
assume square nut and lock washer barely visible near top of bell housing.
If you have the sheet metal plate where it mounts onto, you should be good.
If not: Mount screw 3 1/4" UP from top of horizontal floorboard, 3 3/4" down from BOTTOM of gas pedal rod where it enters the vertical floorboard, and 12 1/2" right of INSIDE edge of headlight dimmer switch. This and pictures from others should work for you. P.S. mine is not painted.

Thanks much for the information.

The accelerator foot rest is also the same as a Chev 4 from '26? to '28

I believe there are also two dimples under the support which line up with drilled holes in the sheet metal and keep the support aligned. (if my memory is correct)

There is one available on e-bay. Search for seller ID Choppsshopjg.

Sent you a pm Dave.

You might just want to keep the gas pedal. There's one in my '31 and I find it much easier to drive with the pedal rather than the foot brace and button accelerator, especially if you drive it a lot. If you need a show car, do go ahead and use the original stuff. I wouldn't change mine for anything.

Thanks for your thoughts Old Crank. I may end up doing that some day but this pedal it really a piece of junk.