Re: FINALLY! FACTORY EXACT AUTO CARPET!!!
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02/03/10 10:31 PM
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Dave, Great pics and info! which was just in time and what I needed to see. ![](/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbs.gif) I previously read an article in Hemmings Muscle Machines covering the replacement carpet from motorparts south. They rated it as excellent. I was ready to order from them until I read this posting. While I am sure that MPS sells a quality product, I will now order from ECS as you guys have high-quality products and also know to avoid the shipping issues that cause carpet installation headaches and poor fit. This is exactly what I encountered with another vendor during my resto v1.0
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Re: FINALLY! FACTORY EXACT AUTO CARPET!!!
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just how much is either of these carpets?i will be ordering a new black carpet for my 74 auto,bucket seat satellite soon and i really dont want this one to fad to a redish tint that the one i bought new 2 years ago for our 71 charger has done shipping?
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Re: FINALLY! FACTORY EXACT AUTO CARPET!!!
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02/06/10 04:21 PM
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just how much is either of these carpets?i will be ordering a new black carpet for my 74 auto,bucket seat satellite soon and i really dont want this one to fad to a redish tint that the one i bought new 2 years ago for our 71 charger has done shipping?
yea, what he said! I dont want no stinkin fading!!! ![](/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/no.gif)
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Re: FINALLY! FACTORY EXACT AUTO CARPET!!!
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02/28/10 12:31 PM
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I e-mailed ECS about availability and price of a flat shipped carpet kit for my 1964 Plymouth Savoy 2 door post (early b-body). This is the email response that I received:
"Hi, I checked into this and we don't carry carpet this far back in our custom style. Thanks for checking with us. Please let us know if you need anything in the future."
Thanks, Cindy ECS
So much for a flat shipped carpet kit from ECS for my car. I called Motor Parts South, and they DO have carpet available for my 1964 Plymouth Savoy (early B-Body). I was pleasantly surprised how reasonable their prices are. They also offered to customize the carpet for superstock style, with rear seat delete and heater delete, for only an little extra.
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Re: FINALLY! FACTORY EXACT AUTO CARPET!!!
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03/01/10 02:10 AM
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My Goodness Jeff! You sure seemed to have read quite a bit into what we "want" concerning our customers and product lines! Had I known that you were going to quote Cindy's email and then proceed to translate it incorrectly, I would have personally answered your inquiry! Here is what I would have stated:
Hi Jeff, We do not carry custom carpet for every model year due to the financial commitment it takes to offer product lines outside of our advertised portfolio. ECS has never claimed that we provide "custom applications" for every Chrysler vehicle in existence. The only applications we have committed to at this time are 1968-1974 A, B and E Body vehicles. We also do not to offer every year or variation of automotive decals due to the same limitations and negative economies of scale! It cost quite a bit to develop a line for ANY specific model and investing in areas that exhibit a very small demand can prove to be disastrous for a business! Now if you would like, we could do like other suppliers that distribute "standard" carpet, have it shipped with an inconsistent cut of material, NOT guarantee correct heel pad placement within 1/4 inch and smash the "custom formed shape" out of it when it is rolled and forced into an under sized shipping container! I am sorry Jeff but we choose NOT to compromise the quality of what we offer to our customers. Your request for this style of carpet is the first we have received! Should demand for this specific model/year increase, we will consider expanding our line to accommodate that style. I hope you can understand our position! Thank you very much!
Dave Walden
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Re: FINALLY! FACTORY EXACT AUTO CARPET!!!
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03/01/10 04:27 PM
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Hi Joe, We have that carpet in stock and the total cost including shipping is $379. In an earlier post Jeff thought it was "interesting" that we had not received a request for 1964 Savoy carpeting prior to his inquiry. I checked with our other employees and they too had never received a request for that style of carpeting. For the record, Jon Dodds (one of our employees) has stated that there have been a few requests that we were not able to accommodate. I want to take just a moment to explain why it is difficult for us to offer such a diverse/deep selection of products. Many companies specialize in only a handful of items. They are usually resellers or middlemen for the products that they sell. ECS not only caters to the Mopar Market but also supplies the Ford and General Motors enthusiast with the same type of parts! Our products are VERY specialized when it comes to exacting detail and factory correctness. We manufacture about 98% of everything that we sell. ECS is a manufacturing company as well as a wholesaler, distributor and retailer. While most companies are able to concentrate on just one line of products, we do our best to offer a wide variety of factory correct reproduction parts to the restoration industry! It would almost be impossible to have the product depth within our lines that some expect us to carry. Today, we had a gentleman call us asking about decals for a 1965 Buick Wildcat. I reluctantly told him that we didn't manufacture products for that particular GM model vehicle! While we do our best to help everyone, I am sure that there are some who are disappointed that we cannot supply their specific needs. I hope I don't read (in another forum) that we don't care about our GM customers because we had to apologize for not stocking an Air Cleaner decal for a 1965 Buick! ![](/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh2.gif)
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Re: FINALLY! FACTORY EXACT AUTO CARPET!!!
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03/02/10 01:32 AM
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Dave, (since we are on a first name basis now), I guess I'm the only guy in the world that is restoring a early B-Body mopar. I seem to notice plenty of guys building 1962-1965 B-Body Max Wedge and Hemi cars lately, who are all installing carpet kits. I also think Chrysler built a few cars prior to 1968.
I contacted you originally because I was impressed with your product which I saw on this same thread. I thought others on Moparts might like to know that you don't currently offer carpet for the early B-body mopars, per the email response to me. Even you say in your response post that you only have carpet kits available for 1968-1974 A,B,E bodies, which I did not know before. Good for you, that's great, I'm happy your making a great product for those cars. But the fact remains that you don't currently offer carpet for 1962-1967 mopars, right?. No big deal, I'll find another vender for carpet in my 1964 Plymouth Savoy Max Wedge, and my other 1964-1967 Mopars. Thanks. -Jeff.
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Re: FINALLY! FACTORY EXACT AUTO CARPET!!!
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03/02/10 01:11 PM
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Dave, (since we are on a first name basis now), I guess I'm the only guy in the world that is restoring a early B-Body mopar. I seem to notice plenty of guys building 1962-1965 B-Body Max Wedge and Hemi cars lately, who are all installing carpet kits. I also think Chrysler built a few cars prior to 1968.
Jeff, That is the second time that you have implied that we must be denying or concealing information regarding carpet inquiries for "early" B Body restorations. I can assure you that there is no conspiracy towards you or any other persons who are restoring an "earlier" Chrysler vehicle. I believe the main reason we do not receive product requests for pre-1968 Chrysler vehicles is due to the fact most people pay attention to the production years that we CLEARLY advertise concerning the parts we sell. It would be great if we could offer every single product for every single car ever manufactured but that is not the case. No matter which corner of the room we stand in there is always someone to tell us that we are in the wrong corner. We had to start somewhere Jeff and we expand our product lines according to market demand. It is as simple as that! Again, I apologize for any inconvenience that our shallow product line(?) may have caused you.
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Re: FINALLY! FACTORY EXACT AUTO CARPET!!!
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03/02/10 04:22 PM
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this is rediculous...I thought I would update this post with the info.
The only thing ridiculous is your claim that your only purpose was to "update" this forum about our inability to provide carpet sets for vehicles prior to 1968. Why reiterate a point that had already been established from the very beginning Jeff? Your comments like, "I guess I'm the only guy in the world that is restoring a early B-Body mopar" or " I also think Chrysler built a few cars prior to 1968" were hardly commentary used to "update" people about what we have to offer. Your earlier post about how "they must not care about customers that do not own vehicles other than E or B Body models..." had ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with simply trying to "update" this information! I only wish you had not edited/eliminated those rude sarcastic comments so everyone following this thread could have read it for themselves.
Here is the perfect opportunity for you to do something for this industry, rather than sit back and sarcastically insult those who have done their best to help with this cause. I wasn't born with the silver "carpet" spoon in my hand Jeff! I simply didn't like what was being offered for the vehicle I was working on at the time so I took it upon myself to do something about it! After a considerable investment and effort to get things done correctly, I decided to share those benefits with others in this hobby. I guess I should offer you a personal apology for not choosing a 1964 Chrysler vehicle to originally work with. If I had, we wouldn't be having this little spat would we? ![](/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbs.gif)
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Re: FINALLY! FACTORY EXACT AUTO CARPET!!!
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03/02/10 10:53 PM
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Dave, I'm sorry to cause you stress
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Re: FINALLY! FACTORY EXACT AUTO CARPET!!!
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03/03/10 10:18 AM
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1964superstock you have a PM
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