Carpet install

Every recent post seems to be 'a couple more things and we'll be done', which never ends up being the case.

The carpet arrived, here's a review.

Rear: The rear was pretty much a perfect fit. The moulding lined up exactly with the tunnel and finished an inch in front of the seam between the front and rear floor. Just enough overhang to provide a clean fit along the sides, I trimmed about 2 inches off each side. 9.5/10 for fit

Front: Front was a reasonably good fit, I've done maybe 5 carpets before from various manufacturers and not one has ever been a snug perfect fit over the trans hump area.It'll settle down a bit and it is cold out in the shed these evenings, so with some good warmth I think it'll be a little more pliable and fit a little more snugly. A fair amount needs to be trimmed from the sides, about 3 inches. Some issues with lining up the dips to clear the steering column. This doesn't line up exactly, but it's pretty close. The carpet doesn't quite reach the factory velcro on the firewall so I'll have to remove that, but it does covers all of the factory underfelt. It did foul on the air box in the centre and has no provision for the accelerator mount like the factory one did. I just unbolted the accelerator mount and rebolted it over the top. Probably about a 7/10 for fit for the front section.

Issues: I ordered loop charcoal, but it's several shades lighter than the factory charcoal. However nowhere as bright as the photos show, that's just poor camera lighting causing that.

There's simply not enough offcuts large enough to cover the outer seat mounts as shown in the last picture. I'm not sure if earlier models have them but they have strips of carpet glued directly to them. I'll have to clean these as well as possible. The only part of those visible is between the seat edge and the doorjam. 

There is, of course, no press studs in the carpet that would attach to the ones in the floor, but I didn't really expect that.

The fouling on the airbox and the not quite right lining up under the dash, was slightly irksome, but I wonder if that's from changes of the models over the years. Perhaps the original mould was taken from a '65 and the '70 has some differences? Not sure...
All up maybe 7.5/10