Carpet

I went with the cut & sewn hardtop/4-speed carpet. This style carpet is not molded like most cars or does not have the trim or the seats to help hold it in place. It was advertised in the sales brochure back in the day as "Wall-to-Wall" carpet.

I did have a problem with the carpet but it was easy to correct. When I took the carpet out of the box I notice the padding was coming loose from the carpet around the edges. When I laid the carpet in the sun to relax I saw that the front carpet had a 2”-3” tall wrinkle where it didn’t lay flat on the padding during the gluing process from the factory. Peeling a section of padding little bit at a time from the carpet and gluing carpet to the pad got things laying flat.

I glued carpet on the vertical section between the scuff plates and floor first. This piece also covers a couple inches of the floor pan to make a better/cleaner transaction between the 2 sections of carpet.

Since I now have a hanging gas pedal, I needed to do something about the hole in the carpet for the factory pedal that was mounted on the floor. I used a piece of scrap carpet under the hole to hide the hole, with it being black on black helped a lot in the hiding the hole.

I glued everything down to keep the padding from sliding on the foil backing on the sound deadening. I was sparely with the glue on the driver’s front to allow ease to removable of the 4-speed hump and shifter when the time comes.

After looking over the console mounting bracket diagram to see where and how much to bent, I made my own floor brackets from sheet metal and pop-riveted the mount for the '62 Falcon console to the floor pan.