This is a project that I started today (Saturday). The black carpet in my 1963 Hardtop Falcon was a sun-faded purple color in places. It is a replacement carpet that had been installed at some point in the past and was not the original carpet. Notice that the toe-board section beneath the back seat is a different color than the carpet on the floor. That section is probably a remaining piece of the original carpet. The replacement carpet did not include that piece.
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I ordered a new black 80/20 loop molded carpet with extra rubber backing. It cost $208, postage included. It was sold by Aardvark Motors but was made by Auto Custom Carpets (ACC). The new carpet is like the old one in that it also does not replace the back seat toe-board section.
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The floor of the car looked in fairly good shape when I pulled out the old carpet. There had been some rust repair on the driver's side firewall and rear foot-well. I mostly left it alone, but did scrape up some loose under-coating and painted a few patches of surface rust with "Loctite Extend Rust Neutralizer" and will paint some Rustoleum primer over those patches tomorrow. See: http://www.loctiteproducts.com/p/s_t...eutralizer.htm
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Here is the worst of the rust on the floor. Someone repaired it in the past by applying Bondo both from the top and underneath. I will just leave it in place.
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