Please don't cringe when I suggest that you might be able to "make them in a mold" from pouring fiberglass. I suggest this only because I too had searched for years for a good pair of Landau irons for a 26. While I was on the hunt what I did was fabricate four rubber molds using the original landau irons as the template.Kits are available for mold making from Eastwood and Skinned Knuckles magazine recently had a great "how to" article on the techniques. In my shop each mold had liquid fiberglass "poured" into the four molds resulting in "pouring" two sets of split landau irons. ( I worried that these might be too brittle but apparently in the mold making hobby they have a specialized recipe that allows it strength and flexibility. Check out Eastwood for the product or other hobby sources. Then I epoxied the halves together and when they set up I grinded, sanded, drilled and finished the fiberglass landau irons with an "aluminum-like" spray paint from Eastwood. They came out perfect.
You are probably thinking that your "real landau irons" are in such poor condition that they really would not work as a good imprint for the molds. Your can solve that by "building up" straightening and finishing the real ones with epoxy.I used an epoxy dough purchased from POR-15 but you can get this stuff almost anywhere. I looks like PlayDough but it sets up hard as a rock and it shapes well. My old car friends who saw me do this said that once I had "restored" the old ones for mold making I should have just painted them. Maybe they were right...I just hate metal parts that are "filled" with plastic, fiberglass and Bondo dough! Anyway there's a temporary fix that no one will ever figure out unless they have a magnet! Then you'll probably be searching for escutcheons (boy I had to look up that spelling ) which are the little saucer shaped disks that hold the whole deal on the car. If you have good ones you are lucky. On my escutcheon search I found loads of qualified "substitutes" from Model T and A parts suppliers. I almost forgot...don't breathe in that stuff
(wear a good mask w/ filter)...they say if you inhale it it might cause memory loss and stuttering ...what what was I I saying???
