Need Info on carpet for early sedans

[VairsRule]

I'm going to make and install new cut-and-sewn carpet for my '62 Monza, and have a question for all EM owners on this forum...

This is a sedan (4-door) with a BENCH seat in the front (not buckets). I got the car with all but a few shreds of the old carpet already torn out, so have nothing to use as a template. This is also my first and only early model Corvair so far.

I looked for information on making and installing cut-and-sewn carpets, but everything is about molded carpet, which has long since become the standard for new cars. Cut-and-sown carpet is divided into a number of separate pieces, and there is an order in which they get installed (some edges overlap other pieces). What I am not sure about is how/where the FRONT section and REAR sections (the main/biggest pieces of carpet that cover the floors).

The carpet in the late model Corvair coupes I've owned is also divided into FRONT and REAR sections, which OVERLAP somewhere under the front seat, where it is not visible. I assumed this would be the case in the early model Corvairs too, but in this photo I found of new Cut and Sewn carpet for 1962 Corvair at stockinteriors.com (Clark's website did not have any photos of carpet for EM Sedans).
In the photo, it looks like the FRONT section of carpet STOPS at the front seat crossmember, and that this would be covered by the REAR section of carpet. Is this correct?

I know I could just make it any way I want, but I'd rather make it look like the original carpet installation.

Photo from StockInteriors.com:
https://www.stockinteriors.com/images/1604-1.jpg

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The repro front carpets stop at the front of the front seats pretty much at the floor and also at the floor on both sides at the rocker panels. There are separate pieces of carpet for each rocker panel area that the floor pieces overlap when installed. The rear carpet goes up under the back of the rear seats but not very far. On coupes the center of the rear floor carpet extends up the center of the car and has a vinyl flap at the front to go straight down the seat riser face and under the edge of the front carpet (the face of the riser is exposed across the front of both buckets. Bench seat carpet is similar in that it ends under the rear of the front bench seat. The floor under the front seat is exposed from outer seat track to outer seat track.

[VairsRule]

The repro front carpets stop at the front of the front seats pretty much at the floor and also at the floor on both sides at the rocker panels. There are separate pieces of carpet for each rocker panel area that the floor pieces overlap when installed. The rear carpet goes up under the back of the rear seats but not very far. On coupes the center of the rear floor carpet extends up the center of the car and has a vinyl flap at the front to go straight down the seat riser face and under the edge of the front carpet (the face of the riser is exposed across the front of both buckets. Bench seat carpet is similar in that it ends under the rear of the front bench seat. The floor under the front seat is exposed from outer seat track to outer seat track.

Thanks, Ted!!!

I just realized that two of the galvanized steel plates I had removed from somewhere years ago sit alongside the front seat to cover the voids. They are formed in such a way as to direct any water down under the seat. I had planned to cover this exposed area with carpet, but now that I know it serves as a DRAIN, I will coat these areas with a black truck bed coating, which will blend in nicely with the black loop pile carpet.

I also see why there was no carpet under the front seat. There's a slight ledge, and anyone sitting in the back seat can't see under it, because the front seat covers the whole thing and the angle does not permit. So, why cover it? I'll put truck bed coating there too (it's currently silver).

Now I'm off to figure out where that other steel plate goes...

[bbodie52]

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Part number C7057: CARPET-61-64 4DR WITH BENCH SEAT

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Weight: 17 lbs 0 oz
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[VairsRule]

It dawned on me that the third steel plate went between the bucket seats, which have since been replaced by a bench seat, so won't bother reinstalling it.

Cleared out the area behind the package area. There was a HUGE mouse nest made of fiberglas insulation that someone lined the floor of the package area with. The insulation did not look original to me, but also no sign that there was ever any sound deadener. EW, GROSS... There were SIX dead mice in the nest all on different levels, like a mouse apartment complex, LOL. Removed all the insulation and did a first pass with a putty knife. Lots of rust scale, but no rust holes found. The package area floor and back wall will get a couple coats of truck bed coating and a layer or two of thin insulation that is aluminum on both sides, with "bubble wrap" type material sandwiched between them. This will be covered by carpet instead of the vinyl covered paperboard that was in there.

BTW, the dashboard turned out really nice. Will post pics another time.