Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Re: Hornet 4speed carpeting

Did you say snappers

Eddie Stakes <eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Doc, you are right and as a AMCer, we usually have to make stuff fit, tweak
and so forth. However, with carpet, there has been problems in the past. I
quit carrying carpet kits in the mid 1990's for 68-74 AMX and Javelin. It
had to do with quality, didn't matter whether loop cut or cut pile. The
100th AMC I owned in early 90s was a little 68 AMX, 343, AT. I am no
stranger to installing carpets and bought this set from a major vendor in
uh, the Sunshine State.

I had it almost completely in and realized it was short. About 1/2 inch. I
had to pull it all up, padding, glue, everything, rebox it, send it back,
and wait for refund in 4 months.

I ended up having it done locally. I would later find out that many carpet
kits sit on shelves for months, years, and are exposed to heat, cold,
humidity, everyting and you get what I sometimes call the NOS effect. You
see it happen with NOS stripes and decals, whereas they have been sitting
for decades, then once installed, and exposed to heat on a hot summer day at
a show, they expand and crack.

I could go on here about correct and incorrect parts, and reproduction items
that are better than NOS and reproduction items that I throw in the bayou
behind my house with the snappers!
Eddie Stakes'
Planet Houston AMX
713.464.8825
eddiestakes@planethoustonamx.com
www.planethoustonamx.com

----- Original Message -----
From: <AMC74HORNET@webtv.net>
To: <BaadAssGremlins@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 10:30 PM
Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Re: Hornet 4speed carpeting (was: my z
code401 matty for sale)

> Sorry guy's but to paraphrase John Elle this is a "MOOT POINT". All
> molded carpet is made from one piece of carpet. The mold and the heat
> forms the carpet NOTHING ELSE!! With a bit of time, ingenuity and a heat
> gun or steal the wife's or your hair drier. ( I am bald so I do, LOL )
> you can make any carpet fit like factory. The so called factory molded
> carpet I got from Kennedy American last year needed trimming and a heat
> gun to make it fit properly. Don't tell me you guy's have gone "COOKIE
> CUTTER CAR" on me and expect put down your credit card to "Year One"
> and expect to get a dead on repo for your Chamero or Moostang?
> PLEEEEEESSSSEEEEE. This is what makes us different from the cookie
> cutter cars!!!!!!!!! Oh you need an original floor pan to make the mold
> for the molded carpet for a 4 speed car or just be creative like "ME".
> :-)~~~~~~~
> "Doc"
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