it just keeps geeting better!

[Jim J.]

Well, I just took out the seats to give the carpets a good cleaning and found some really interesting things! Check out the cut of the carpets.

[Jim J.]

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Here is close up of the gas receipts. Note the license plate!

[Ken Edmunds]

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Nice! A perfect original cut. One for the archives with your permission.

[Brian M.]

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Ahhhhh Super Shell at 38.9 per gallon, those were the days.

[Charles P.]

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Is there any information they didn't get? Credit card auth number, retailers initials, license plate number, signature, grade of gas and quantity purchased all manually entered. I wonder what the rate of credit card fraud was and or gas drive-offs? 38.9 AND it was pumped for you. Now if someone came out and took your plate number would you be scratching your head?

I recently did the carpets on 72 and 73 C3 convertibles. Besides the owners previous tastes in fast food, period coinage etc I found under the carpet handfuls of black and silver aluminum pop rivets, carpet cuttings, various sizes of interior hardware and the manufacturers tags for the carpet. I slipped the tags back under there for the next owner. It was a real time capsule. I am here to tell you that very little was done in the way of vacuuming prior to laying that carpet on these 2 vehicles on the line that day, one more so than the other.

[Dave Morris]

Credit cards are great way to find yours cars

history. Found a gas credit card receipt when changing the rear carpet in my 63. Was down at the base of the convertable top arms behind the fiberglass cover. Receipt was dated 1967 in Las Vegas. Charged to a business in Wichita Kansas. The signature was legible. Called information and got the guy on the first try. Original owner. Rather be lucky than good.

[Charles P.]

Re: Credit cards are great way to find yours cars

Two martini lunches and expensing a Las Vegas trip in a corvette to a business in Kansas. Now those were the days. I wonder how many of those "history needed on my corvette" ads in driveline would be solved by removing a seat?

[John L.]

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I thought the carpet was also cut at the very front to make a hinge flap. These appear to only have a cut on the side with no real hinge. Am I correct or not.

[Jim J.]

Re: it just keeps geeting better!

Take a closer look. It is hinged in the front.
Jim

[Doug Flaten]

Re: it just keeps geeting better!

Now just the fuel taxes are about that same 38.9 per gallon.
Doug