Mileage: 88,493
After a few days of waiting I finally got three carpet samples back from ACC that most closely matched my original carpet sample that I sent them.
The left side samples I already had and from top to bottom are: #7037 Camel Tan, #854 Carmel, #7087 Doeskin, #7295 Medium Doeskin. The new samples that I just received are on the right and from top to bottom are: #9205 Cognac, #830 Buckskin, #4640 Dark Saddle. I know it is hard to tell with the lighting and the flash on my camera, but the top one on the right (#9205 Cognac) is an exact match. I have no idea why or how this is possible, but on my 1980 Trans Am with a Camel Tan interior, the carpet color match isn’t Camel Tan, it’s Cognac! I was able to return my old carpet and order the correct color with out any troubles!
Since I removed the original carpet and discovered the coolant soaked carpet pad in the passenger side foot well, I have been air drying, blow drying, and letting the carpet pad bake in the sun. After all of this, I attempted to clean it up and reinforce it with Gorilla Tape, but it just wasn’t working. The material had set wet for too long and was just coming apart. One option was to replace all of the carpet pad in the entire car. The kit is right around $100. However, the rest of the carpet pad in my car was just fine and I didn’t want to wait for it to be delivered. Given these circumstances, I decided to make my own!
I went down to the Home Depot and purchased a small piece of plastic backed residential carpet pad and some roofing tar paper. I traced the outline of the old carpet pad onto the residential carpet pad and cut it out. The residential carpet pad I chose had the same thickness as the original carpet pad from the Trans Am. I then traced the same outline onto the roofing tar paper and cut that out. Finally, I used some 3M spray adhesive and glued the two pieces together. The result was great, it looked and felt just like the original and only cost me about $6!
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