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Well.. FWIW...

When I brought my 70 Coronet home from my parents house in 2001,
(it has been sitting in a garage since 1990) the original interior
was shot beyond all rational belief because mice had gotten in it!

When I removed the sill plates to replace the carpet, the carpet
was over the pinchweld on both the driver and passenger sides.

The sill plate was "pressed" on top of it to hold it in place.
I don't know if that's right or not but that's what I found.

I've owned the car since 1982. I'm only the 2nd owner and it was
definitely the original carpeting.

When I replaced it. The replacement carpeting (from ACC)
did not have enough material to reach over the pinchweld on either side! it did come right up to the inside edge...

But, the sill plate does not do a very good job of holding it down by itself.

So I sprayed alittle bit of the "spray adhesive" on the
floor board up where it approaches the pinchweld before
replacing the sill plate.
It looks good! ( a zillion percent improvement over what was left of the old one!)

But it was not installed exactly like the original.

The color and style (80/20 loop) matched great...






Hmmm, now I am getting memory flashbacks of the seeing the same thing when I removed my original carpet back in the early '80's.

Thanks, I'll have the seats installed when I do trim it back. The carpet I got from Ledgendary had plenty of extra length on all sides. Because the front and rear of the carpet go up under the dash and under the rear seat, I left the added length. The carpet's got so much extra width too, that it's actually slightly hanging out the doors when they are closed.

Last edited by jbc426; 08/26/11 05:41 PM.
1970 Plymouth 'Cuda #'s 440-6(block in storage)currently 493" 6 pack, Shaker, 5 speed Passon, 4.10's
1968 Plymouth Barracuda Convertible 408 Magnum EFI with 4 speed automatic overdrive, 3800 stall lock-up converter and 4.30's (closest thing to an automatic 5 speed going)