1965 Carpet

[Dave Marshall]

I am ready to attempt to install the carpeting in my 65 conv. with an Al Knoch carpet set. Is there a good detailed set of instructions anywhere that I might get to help me with this project? I am a first timer at this and want to do it right. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Dave Marshall

[Art A.]

Re: 1965 Carpet

Dave, What color carpet and when did you buy it from Al?

Art

[Dave Marshall]

Re: 1965 Carpet

Art,

The carpet is black and I actually bought it at the 1995 Homecoming at Bowling Green, KY. Thanks.

Dave

[Douglas L.]

Re: 1965 Carpet

Dave,

On the seats, remove the seat brackets from the bottom the seats and use them as a template for cutting the bolt hole locations for the seats. Also, be careful of how much you cut around the center console area. That is where I had a slight overcut when I did mine. Use a heat gun to warm the carpet up to make it lay flatter. Measure 10 times, cut once!! Good luck.

[Jack H.]

Thoroughly clean & dry...

the bottom of the carpet to remove any residual plasticizer that'll prevent glue/adhesive from sticking the carpet to the underlying jute. Also, laying the carpet flat and letting the sun 'cook' the wrinkles from pack out of it helps too...