Auto carpet.

I bought from them for my 64 Chrysler NY and it fit for me. I had to do some trimming around the edges, but I like the carpet and it did have the (rubber/plastic/whatever it's made of) foot pad on the driver's side under the pedals. That part is extra insulated underneath.
 
bluefury361 said:
I just ran across another supplier of auto carpet. Looks like good quality stuff
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Has anybody used them? How did it look and fit?
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After reading discussions in this thread and in this other thread, I bought a set of four carpet mats from Stock Interiors for Medina, my 1971 2dr T-code Dodge Monaco with H6XW interior (I still have the bench-wide original plastic cover to protect the carpet, but I don't like how it feels when driving spiritedly and ordered the floor mats for a more luxurious/comfortable feel):

'65-'73 Dodge Monaco Floor Mats, Set of 4 - Front and back
Color: 501-Black 80-20 Loop​

IMO, the Stock Interiors material looks like the original carpet. @71Polara383 can chime in, I believe he agrees. @Big_John noted that they are a retailer for ACC materials.

PS: Note that my evaluation is for the material only. The mats fit properly in the footwells, but this says nothing about how well a cut/molded carpet would work. This caveat aside, I would not hesitate to order carpets from them myself, based on what I have seen thus far.
 
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I recently ordered two carpet sets from them for my 1969 Chrysler Town & Country station wagon and 1973 Dodge Coronet Crestwood wagon.

For the T&C wagon the carpet fit very well but it is still some work to get them installed. Razor blades for trimming the carpet don't last long and the backing is pretty rugged, making the install tedious. This carpet was the standard loop pile and it turned out looking really nice - just took a lot of careful cuts to get it right. This model has the floor mounted seat belt retractors with rectangular covers on them but the carpet molding did not account for that correctly, so except for that detail, it was pretty straightforward to do. That extra hump due to the seatbelt was a bit of a pain though to get it looking good but I was careful and thought through the implications of each cut to the overall shape I needed to get.

For the Crestwood wagon, I ordered the ultra plush cut pile with mass backing to try it out. It is was far more classy than the cheap kind of crappy cut pile originally in the car from the factory and the trimming was just a little more tedious given the mass backing directly attached to the bottom of the carpet and the jute was glued under that. So everything was significantly more thick than the original and much more substantial. On the Crestwood models (and most 71 - up models) the seat belt retractors are separate assemblies that are added on after the carpet installation. Overall, this install was significantly easier than the T&C install due to that one improvement in Chrysler's design of the seat belt retractor (it doesn't look nearly as clean as the assembly that is mounted in the floor on the T&C but given how much easier the separate install is, I am happy to put up with the not so neat appearance of the seat belt pod on top of the carpet mounted to the interior side rails rather than in the floor. But given the extra thickness of this plush carpet, I had to find some longer seat belt bolts, the C12 marking on the head of those bolts. If you don't have any laying around, you can get reproductions of them from Vans for $8 each.

One other comment, while the heel pad was correct on my T&C, it was not identical to the original one on the Crestwood - but given the improved look of the carpet, I let it pass since this will be more of a driver type vehicle than a fully restored one. So you might want to see a photo of the heel pad before you order to make sure it is correct if it would bother you. Normally it would bother me, and on the T&C, that was more a full restoration but its heel pad was correct out of the box.

But overall, I am very pleased with the quality and appearance of the interior of the wagons now.

p.s. I would personally recommend separately putting any mass backing directly on the floor pan first and then just ordering their carpeting without that option only because it was more difficult to get the carpet to sit flat in a couple spots with the mass backing (and easier to cut too, but not that much harder in terms of the cutting).
 
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The appeal to me is the cut and sewn method with the edges all bound. This is how the original carpet was in my 61 Fury. No one else I know of offers that feature. I had planned to buy material and let my trimmer fit it. My original carpet is a great pattern. If it weren't so old and faded I could reuse it.
 
bluefury361 said:
I just ran across another supplier of auto carpet. Looks like good quality stuff, unlike the ACC crap.

Auto Carpet for Car, Truck, Van - Stock Interiors
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As far as I know, they are ACC dealers and that is the carpet they sell. Order some samples and see what happens, but I'll bet you can trace them back to ACC.

The mats I ordered for my Barracuda from them are ACC. No doubt about it.

In fact, I've even read that they are the factory outlet for ACC or at least one of their larger dealers.
 
I've had no problem with my ACC carpet.
Big_John said:
As far as I know, they are ACC dealers and that is the carpet they sell. Order some samples and see what happens, but I'll bet you can trace them back to ACC.
The mats I ordered for my Barracuda from them are ACC. No doubt about it.
In fact, I've even read that they are the factory outlet for ACC or at least one of their larger dealers.
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Like I say about other parts like this are probably the SOS part from a different vendor. Good Luck
 
Big_John said:
As far as I know, they are ACC dealers and that is the carpet they sell. Order some samples and see what happens, but I'll bet you can trace them back to ACC.

The mats I ordered for my Barracuda from them are ACC. No doubt about it.

In fact, I've even read that they are the factory outlet for ACC or at least one of their larger dealers.
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bluefury361 said:
The appeal to me is the cut and sewn method with the edges all bound. This is how the original carpet was in my 61 Fury. No one else I know of offers that feature. I had planned to buy material and let my trimmer fit it. My original carpet is a great pattern. If it weren't so old and faded I could reuse it.
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I believe Big John may well be correct. When I tried to order carpet for the rear panels in my wagons (the ones to make the flat load areas) I was told by the person at Stock Interiors that their carpet supplier had a limit on the amount of yardage I could buy for rolled carpet to only one yard due to the virus' impact on their production. I am not sure, however, whether Stock Interior buys their base carpet from ACC perhaps and then molds and edges it to fit the particular themselves, or whether ACC does all of that??

To comment on Will's post, only the front compartment molded carpet was bound, and that is the rear edge of that carpet that lays over the rear compartment molded carpet only. For my T&C, it was edge bound with color matched vinyl on the rear of the front one only just like the factory carpet that was in the car and on my 1973 Crestwood, that rear edge was bound with overlapping stitching. The factory front carpet, however, had no edging from the factory on the rear of it but all the rear flat panels sections covered with carpet are cross stitched all around each piece and Stock Interiors apparently did overlapping stitching on the rear of the front molded carpet edge to match the rear for a better look than the factory provided (you only see that though when opening the front doors and looking at the small overlap areas between the seat bases and the doors).
 
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I am not sure, however, whether Stock Interior buys their base carpet from ACC perhaps and then molds and edges it to fit the particular themselves, or whether ACC does all of that??
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Didn't take a lot of detective work to figure it out.

Stock Interiors

A response to a post on November 22, 2019. The title is "Looking for the best auto interior products at the best prices?"

I've not quoted in its entirety, some of the content is obviously out of context for here. This response was made 17 weeks ago according to the date on Facebook.

Hey guys... the carpets we sell are custom made by ACC, and they are the leading manufacturer of custom molded aftermarket auto carpets.
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I bought the carpet for my 66 Newport convertible from Stock Interiors (10?) years ago, ordered from their website. They had the best price at the time and a colour that was close to the original red. I can't say I'm very happy with it though. I ordered with the mass backing. The front section didn't go as far up the firewall as the original. If you are sitting in the back seat you can see the firewall sheetmetal above where the carpet ends. Also, with the front section of carpet otherwise fitted correctly, the transmission tunnel area didn't fit very well. It's really "poofy", i.e. a gap between the carpet and the sheetmetal below it. I also ordered matching carpeted floor mats. I was very unimpressed with those. They are a generic shape and much too small for the floor area, especially in the front seats.

More recently I ordered ACC carpet for my 66 Windsor. I ordered without mass backing and installed separate extra insulation instead. I am happy with the fit and with the matching floormats. The carpet goes further up the firewall and the matching floormats are much larger and a better shape. I can't comment on the fitment around the trans tunnel because that car has a center console and shifter anyhow. There was a fitment issue at the rear edge of the rear seat footwells. I cut the carpet in one spot where it wanted to buckle, so it overlaps instead, but that is mostly hidden by the rear seat bottom. This carpet does seem to wear very quickly though. After less than 2 driving seasons, the carpeted mat was getting "fuzzy" below where my right heel would rest when using the gas pedal. I wound-up still using a rubber floor mat for the driver's position.

I ordered the ACC carpet through National Moparts. Nigel said that they used to use a different supplier which was cheaper, but ACC bought them and raised their prices because they're the only supplier left.
 
Big_John said:
Didn't take a lot of detective work to figure it out.

Stock Interiors

A response to a post on November 22, 2019. The title is "Looking for the best auto interior products at the best prices?"

I've not quoted in its entirety, some of the content is obviously out of context for here. This response was made 17 weeks ago according to the date on Facebook.
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Good info! I looked at the page on FB that you linked to. In the same message thread there was also this which I thought was pertinent and interesting:
We are their largest dealer and get a significant discount that we pass on to our customers. If you buy full retail price directly from ACC, you would get exactly the same item that we sell, you would just pay alot more for it.
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I started doing a little research and this is literally a mom and pop place...

I've found two addresses listed, one is a UPS store and the other is "Traveling Mailbox" which is basically a business address for those without brick and mortar. Mail Scanning, Virtual Mailbox & Mail Forwarding Services

There seems to be two people involved, Kevin and Sandra Murray. I don't have the resources since I retired to look up any more info on their profile, so I can't tell you much more about their size or projected annual revenue.

I think that it's run off the kitchen table, basically internet order taking ACC and Acme headliners, maybe a couple more and then the product is drop shipped to the customer. Think Rock Auto. Might be retired trimers, I don't know. They do a good job from everything I've heard and I will use them again, so this all makes no difference to me.
 
I'm not surprised that a lot of carpets are drop shipped from ACC.
ACC does not offer a CORRECT carpet for my 61 Plymouth which makes me believe they either do some manufacturing or have another source.

I'll probably stick to my original plan and custom make the carpet for my car.
 
bluefury361 said:
I'm not surprised that a lot of carpets are drop shipped from ACC.
ACC does not offer a CORRECT carpet for my 61 Plymouth which makes me believe they either do some manufacturing or have another source.

I'll probably stick to my original plan and custom make the carpet for my car.
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Can your source mold the tunnel area outward as it goes towards the firewall like the ACC type carpets Will?
 
bluefury361 said:
I'm not surprised that a lot of carpets are drop shipped from ACC.
ACC does not offer a CORRECT carpet for my 61 Plymouth which makes me believe they either do some manufacturing or have another source.

I'll probably stick to my original plan and custom make the carpet for my car.
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Give them a call. We've all found from our experiences that web sites don't always list things correctly or completely. It's worth a few minutes of your time.

Don't forget, ACC did acquire Trim Parts with all their molds and patterns. What they did with it was up to them, but you never know...
 
The color was dead on but a little short for my convertible back seat area on the sides.
Called stock interiors and told them and sent pics of what the trouble was and another set of carpet was sent and it was 6 inches longer.

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