Help with photos of 74 Duster Space Pak trunk trim and carpet

Fellow Moparites: I need help understanding exactly how the trunk dress up trim and carpeting look in a 74 Duster with the fold down back seat ( Space Pak). Does anyone have an original unmodified trunk with the Space Pak? Are there supposed to be panels along the rear sides of the trunk and over the rear of the wheelhouses? What is the carpet like? Does it extend side to side in the trunk and somehow attach to the fold down panel? Detailed photos of the original unmodified trunk would be very helpful. Anyone willing to provide a phone number? Conversation is always better than e-mailing for me. Any help would be great. I want my trunk to look right! BOB

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I’m about to pull my 73 in for restore. Will snap some photos but I can tell you that there is plastic trim over the wheel houses.

Yeah, photos would be great. Is yours unrestored and original / unmodified? Mine has plastic trim over the FRONT of the wheelhouses, but none over the REAR of the wheelhouses. The plastic trim covers just sorta stop there in mid-air and I was wondering if there's anything behind this point,covering the rear half of the wheelhouses in the trunk. I have a black plastic trim cover across the rear taillight panel that goes from side to side and forward a bit on both left and right sides. Is there some sort of trunk sidewall covering there, or is the bare trunk wall visible? Photos of the carpeting would be nice. I want to replace all the carpeting, but nobody makes a full front to rear carpet set for these cars.

That particular part of my car is as untouched as I know. You are correct from the seatback into the trunk the wheel well cover stops. Bare trunk wall is visible with that tail panel cover to my knowledge as well. Are you talking about the carpet on the seatback as it faces into the trunk? I am not certain anyone makes that but floor carpeting should not be an issue.

Okay, sounds like there is no factory covering on the rear of the wheelhouses or the trunk sides. So that means you're just looking at the inside of the quarter panel, and not some finished surface, such as a plastic trim. Regarding he carpeting, here's what I have now: The floor carpet extends to the top of the divider panel. If you lower the divider, there is continuous carpet from the front of the car to the back end of the lowered divider panel. The rest of the trunk floor is bare. Whatever was there originally is now gone - only bare metal. So somehow carpeting went from where the divider panel meets the floor, to the rear tail light trim cover, and presumably side to side from quarter panel to quarter panel, with cutouts for the jack mount. Any thoughts?

I spammed a few today and can explain a bit based on what I saw. Tore it all down today.

I have a 1974 Duster I bought in 75 from the original owner. Had carpet on everything the way cruiser described, regular carpet on trunk floor, carpet on wheel wells as shown by Dartn440 and carpet glued to rear quarters. Don't have any pictures of my original trunk. Hope this helps.

I kept the pieces of cut carpet over the wheel wells to use as a template for new. I plan to use some spry in sound deadener and then use a regular trunk mat. I looked for glue residue along trunk extensions and quarters and there was none, but it doesn’t mean it wasn’t there at one time.

Thanks for the photos Dartn440. It looks like the rear half of the wheelhouses in the trunk are factory covered with black carpet. The right wheelhouse cover carpeting appears to have a cutout at the top to fit around the upper mount for the jack. I believe that the jack itself resides in the normal spot, but is stored in a black vinyl cover, attaching to the trunk floor with the tire iron underneath it and fastened with a spring. The carpeting itself appears to be standard nylon loop black Mopar floor carpeting, attached to the wheelhouses with spray adhesive. This carpeting is always black, as is the rear surface of the divider panel. The front side of the divider panel is passenger compartment floor carpeting in whatever color the carpet came in. So the wheelhouse covers are always black, and the rest of the carpet , including the carpet on the trunk floor over the spare, is the same as in the front and rear seat floors. I've never seen an original trunk floor carpet, so I don't know how the forward portion of it meets the bottom of the divider panel, or if this trunk carpet covers the trunk side extension panels adjacent to the inside of the quarter panels. Any thoughts on this, anybody?

Okay, sports fans. Here's what I've learned. I just found a junkyard 74 Duster with the Spacemaker Pak. The original carpeting was still in the trunk. First, as near as I can tell, regardless of the interior color of your car, the trunk carpeting was always black, as was the plastic trim panel at the rear of that trunk. In the trunk itself, there are two pre-cut black floor carpet pieces that cover the rear half of the wheelhouses. I recovered both of these from the junked Duster. They extend behind the plastic trim on the front half of the wheelhouses, and up into the void above the wheelhouses. They are glued to the wheelhouses. I found one 1975 Dart that had factory installed sound deadener attached to the back of these carpet pieces, but the Duster I saw didn't have this. I'll use these pieces as template for my new carpet. The floor of the trunk uses the same black carpet, extending from the hinge point at the bottom of the security panel, to the trim cover at the back of the trunk, and extending side to side from inner quarter panel to the opposite inner quarter panel. So the side trunk floor extensions are carpeted, and the carpet on the passenger side has cutouts for the jack mount. The carpet over the right wheelhouse has a hole cut into it to accommodate the upper jack mount. The inside surfaces of the quarter panels are covered with a black felt - like fabric, glued on, and extending from top to bottom, and from just ahead of the wheelhouse to the plastic trim panel in the back. That's all for now. Hope this helps!