Will one of you with a mid-year take a look at the fiberboard cover that goes over the jack storage compartment and tell me how your chrome bezel is placed in the finger hole? I recently replaced my carpet throughout and my compartment cover did not have a carpet piece secured to it. I just glued the carpet to the top of the cover and now I would like to know how an original carpet is cut to secure my reproduction bezel. Is the carpet cut to the exact diameter of the hole? Or is the carpet cut into "pie wedges" and tucked under the board? Or perhaps it is slightly larger than the diameter of the finger hole. Also, is there any evidence that the edges of the carpet were burned to prevent unraveling of the nylon thread. Any help here is appreciated. Thanks, Gary #21316
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Re: 66 Jack storage compartment ?? - OOPS!
I should have said "is there any evidence that the hole for the bezel is burned around the edges to prevent unraveling". Thanks again. -
Re: 66 Jack storage compartment ?? - OOPS!
I should have said "is there any evidence that the hole for the bezel is burned around the edges to prevent unraveling". Thanks again.Comment
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Re: 66 Jack storage compartment ???
Original carpet in my '65 was 'punched' to kinda/sorta match the diameter of the thumblift hole. By this, I mean carpet followed the curvature of the hole but was a bit ragged.
Chrome bezel was clinched down tightly against carpet to prevent unraveling. There's a modest overlap. Don't think J.P. Stevens was into 'precision' die cutting nor was the factory -- in hurry kick 'em out the door....
BTW, some repro jack cover boards are cut in mirror image of originals and thumblift winds up on 'wrong' side of center. If your board is original to the car, no need for worry....Comment
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Re: 66 Jack storage compartment ???
Original carpet in my '65 was 'punched' to kinda/sorta match the diameter of the thumblift hole. By this, I mean carpet followed the curvature of the hole but was a bit ragged.
Chrome bezel was clinched down tightly against carpet to prevent unraveling. There's a modest overlap. Don't think J.P. Stevens was into 'precision' die cutting nor was the factory -- in hurry kick 'em out the door....
BTW, some repro jack cover boards are cut in mirror image of originals and thumblift winds up on 'wrong' side of center. If your board is original to the car, no need for worry....Comment
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Re: 66 Jack storage compartment ???
Thanks for the update, I will see if I can duplicate that look. When you say punched, are the ends of the nylon thread cut off and then held in place by the bezel? GaryComment
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Re: 66 Jack storage compartment ???
Thanks for the update, I will see if I can duplicate that look. When you say punched, are the ends of the nylon thread cut off and then held in place by the bezel? GaryComment
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