What I did for my '70 300 was find a cheap piece of automotive carpet on eBay and cut it out using what I had left of the original mat as a pattern.I only see a repro for the convertibles, does anyone know the difference between the conv. Trunk mat and the sedan or coupe one?
Didn't need to do anything with the edges. Auto carpet doesn't fray or come apart on the edges easily and being in the trunk, you aren't dragging your feet across the edges or things like that.On the mat that was in my '70 Monaco Brougham, all edges of the OEM trunk carpet were sewn with a solid edge-protecting stich. Which would be expensive to do, as it was about 1/2" wide and was solid, side-by-side, for the full perimeter of the mat. To keep the mat edges from coming apart.
What did y'all use to seal the edges to keep them intact? I realize that such is probably not needed, because of the use and location of the carpet, but did y'all take pains to determine which way "the grain" of the carpet "weave" ran and such?
Just curious,
CBODY67
What I did for my '70 300 was find a cheap piece of automotive carpet on eBay and cut it out using what I had left of the original mat as a pattern.
Cars could be ordered with a "trunk dress up" package that had the black carpet along with some black cardboard panels. Here's a thread with some pictures of trunks with this package. Trunk Dress Up
Mine has a plastic like backing on it like other auto carpet, but not quite as nice as most, but still that same backing. This is why I specify "auto carpet". I took a pic of the backing.thanks that does look really nice, I'm guessing the carpet has no backing just rug on both sides?
I found a plain vinyl one for an RV or Jeep. Another eBay deal. Then I cut a round piece of plywood to sit on top of the spare so that gives me a little storage under the plywood and lets me pile things on top. Gotta remember that I have a convertible with less trunk space.About the spare cover, I'm wondering if they sell one maybe for the Charger etc. that would work?
Do you think there were side panels at some time? The trunk dress up packages I've seen always have black cardboard.The OEM trunk carpet in my Monaco did have serging all around it, factory. Looked really nice, carpet and serge were black. As was the spare tire cover. No cardboard side panels. No vinyl spray backing on the carpet, either.
I looked the other night, (seems like it was REM?) and found black or gray trunk carpet. Spare tire covers in gray. "Fleece" was the weave, IIRC. Don't recall pricing.