What brand Carpet is the best quality?

Discussion in 'Interior City' started by garybuick, Aug 16, 2007.

  1. 71GSX455-4SPD

    71GSX455-4SPD Nick Serwo Magic Car

    Never heard a complaint about ACC! :TU:

    The only disclaimer is if you have an A-body 4-spd car, order the auto trans carpet as the manual trans carpet has too big of a form for the shift hump.
     
  2. Duane

    Duane Member

    "The only disclaimer is if you have an A-body 4-spd car, order the auto trans carpet as the manual trans carpet has too big of a form for the shift hump."

    Ken, That is if you have a Buick A-body 4-spd car.:laugh:
    Duane
     
  3. flynbuick

    flynbuick Guest

    I will second that. ACC used a HUMVEE drive tunnel as the mold to make the 4 speed carpet for a 70 4 speed Buick.
     
  4. 71GSX455-4SPD

    71GSX455-4SPD Nick Serwo Magic Car

    I'm sorry Duane, I guess I'm confused, wasn't BUICK the only A-body made? You mean there were others? :shock: :laugh: I hadn't heard that. Isn't Buick the only division of GM besides GMC trucks? :)
     
  5. pglade

    pglade Well-Known Member

    Same carpet for an Olds also----you could crawl in the space between the carpet and the tunnel and take a nice warm nap..4 speed carpet.
     
  6. TXGS

    TXGS Paint by numbers 70 GS 455 4spd

    Agree with Patton!
     
  7. TORQUED455

    TORQUED455 Well-Known Member

    I am installing carpet in my 72 GS from OPGI. They had it in stock and shipping was free because of my order being more than 300 or 400 bucks.

    Anyway, I like the loop, but like mentioned above, the area over the tunnel is way too big. How do you go about fixing that?
     
  8. TORQUED455

    TORQUED455 Well-Known Member

    Never mind -- I had the wife do it. She said it was just like hanging wallpaper, another task which she accels at and I suck at.

    The biggest issue seemed to be the placement of the attached backing - it was too far back which gave the illusion that you had to have the front carpet too far forward, making the hump appear too big. She trimmed several inches off the backing so the carpet could be moved rearward and the remaining backing fit nicely in the floor pan.
     
  9. Ken Mild

    Ken Mild King of 18 Year Resto's

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