Re: Best place to get carpet
[Re: GTXKARL]
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03/28/15 04:04 PM
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I'd recommend ACC carpet, your choice, 80/20 Grandma loop or High cut pile, either buy directly from ACC or if you prefer ECS's ship flat carpet, contact Dave Walden at ECS, either way it's ACC supplied carpet, either route will be up to $300 shipped
Personally I prefer the high cut pile, very plush, and rich looking, rather than factory OEM Grandma 80/20 loop
Mike
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Re: Best place to get carpet
[Re: Car Nut]
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03/28/15 06:16 PM
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Re: Best place to get carpet
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03/28/15 10:16 PM
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And as always you'll get 2 different vendor suggestions. I stopped using ACC 20 years ago. The Black carpet will be Purple in a year or two. They are always short, company went down after the plane crash years back. I buy Trim Parts from Dante and have never looked back. Just put one in my 72 B-body a week ago. Ron
Ron, posted below my response, is Dave Walden's (ECS) quote from 2014 regarding ACC, while I'll agree with you about the black carpeting fading in the past (only the 80/20 loop) I yet to have an ACC carpet come up "short" were it's unusable in the last 30+ years of using them on my cars or customers, Trim Parts/Metro South always seem to have/lack the proper molded shapes, esp in the tranny tunnel area, from my experiences/applications... usable, yes, but usually with some creative padding/cutting/triming/etc...the last carpet that a customer supplied me for their vehicle(2012/13), was a TrimParts cut pile, that not only had shape issues around the 4spd tunnel, but came up short at BOTH door sills, so short that no amount of stretching or tweaking would get it under the sill plates
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Re: Best place to get carpet
[Re: 1970Dart3406]
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03/29/15 12:50 AM
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I've had the carpet for 4 years sitting in a box in the basement.
I do really like cut pile, not sure why I didn't get it.
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Re: Best place to get carpet
[Re: reborn73]
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03/29/15 10:19 PM
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what is OE for a 73 challenger? 80/20 or pile?
73 Challenger is 80/20 OEM.... OEM pile started in 1975 IIRC
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