C1 trunk mats

Muttley · 01-31-2003, 12:25 PM

I'm wondering what the story is with these things; I heard they used to be available in repro, but were discontinued five years ago or so. It seems like an easy enough thing to manufacture, so I'm kind of mystified as to why they aren't being done.

Anyway, I need one--although my car is not a Flight candidate, nothing is really going to "do" for the trunk besides a correct-looking mat.

The going rate on ebay (although I haven't actually seen any red '62 mats) seems to be around $300 :eek: I did hear there were some at Carlisle last year...anyone have any other advice? Thanks in advance.

John McGraw · 01-31-2003, 01:36 PM

You might try Al Knoch and Romeo Engineering both on the mat. They were both in the process of tooling up to produce mats again and I understand that Romeo is already making a 59-early 60 mat. The word that I hear is that it is a real nice mat! I bought the last early 60 mat from a vendor over a year ago, and have numerous people try to buy it from me. This has been a real problem for restorers, and will hopefully come to an end with new production.
Hopefully, some of the more noticable incorrect areas of the mats will be corrected on the new generation of mats.
:seeya

58Vette65 · 01-31-2003, 01:49 PM

I refused to pay $300.00 for a trunk mat for my 58 – I would of put in artificial green turf before I would part with that kind of money.:mad Seems that several venders carry mats in black and red but blue is really hard to find. I just call Mary Jo the Vettegirl and put in a request and in a couple of months she had one for $125.00.

Brian VH McHale · 02-01-2003, 11:42 AM

A NOS 62 mat would run over $1000.00 kinda makes a repro at $300.00 seem cheap. But a repro can be spotted at 10 foot. Good Luck.

Muttley · 02-02-2003, 03:44 PM

Guys, thanks for the advice. I'll check out John's suggestions and get on Mary Jo's waiting list.

Brian, thanks for the data point as well. NOS would be the ultimate, but I'm not sure I could bring myself to set even a case of beer in the trunk if I knew the mat was worth a grand. :cry

Edit: What timing...I just noticed a couple of ads from Romeo on ebabe for their early mats. I've asked about plans for producing later ones. Comments on appearance/quality of these are welcome:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...&category=6755
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...&category=6755

[Modified by DavidB, 2:06 AM 2/3/2003]