Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Re: Hornet 4speed carpeting

[Luke Wardwell <horneteer2@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hmmm I guess I am a cheapskate and plan on keeping my
original rugs in my car. Even though I have vacuumed
about 5 pounds of sand out of them. They have the
usual wear spots which I touched up with a black
marker and coverd up the spots with Scooby Doo floor
mats. I might get 2 more mats for the back to match
the front. I am a little concerned about a 2 inch slit
the last owners cut on the trans tunnel for speaker
wires. I don't know why they had 2 speakers there.
That was one of the first things I changed. 

> 
> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> www.planethoustonamx.com
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <AMC74HORNET@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 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"
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 
> 
> 
> 
>          
> 


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