Thanks for the help with the speedo, green bottle etc. I would like to buy new replacement carpet for my floors.......is this a at home project? Or should I spend the extra $350 for instalation in a shop?
bought several carpets from NOS over the years for cars and trucks, good quality with fair prices, and good service, best improvement in the cars appearence u can do yourself in an afternoon in the driveway, its not hard and it will smell and look like a new car
Carpet replacement can easily be an at home project. Removal of seats, seat belts, and door sills goes pretty quickly. Then pull out the old carpet, do some cleaning, and then test fit the new one. Likely you will have to do some trimming and make all the cuts for the bolt holes in the new carpet but that is the hardest part. After that just install the seats and seat belts.
It's not a bad job but it does take some time if you are finicky like me. I tore out a plain interior with rubber floor on my 96 Caprice cop car and replaced it with 92 Roadmaster power seats and carpet in 2 afternoons. The biggest task was wiring the power seats. My carpet had the holes all precut so that part was easy.
I would recommend that you go under the car before you start and use some penetrating oil on all the seatbelt bolts and seat bolts that are visible. This can save you time and frustration later.
..and make sure you get out any moisture that has sat in the footwells and carpet over the years before you put the new one down. You can use a hair dryer to dry it all out if you find moisture (and if you live back east where I did that water will probably be salt-laiden..!). Because of that, what I did with my '79 Mercury Capri when I put new carpet in it was to take the old one out, dry out the floor well, fix any rust spots where (salty) water may have puddled, painted the entire bare floor with Rustolem, let it dry overnight then lay the new stuff. Takes more time but you know that it's clean underneath for a while to come...! Then use floor mats!
