Installed New Carpet from ACC

cchrishefish said
I installed new carpet in my 1964 Dart GT yesterday. It looks really nice. I still need to install the passenger seat, seat belts, and kick panels. I used the premium version of ACC carpet with the extra heavy backing. The soldering iron trick really helped with cutting the holes for the seats ETC. It is very overcast today so I am sorry about the dark picture. I just wanted to point out that I really did not like the look of my inner carpet sill plates. I tried everything on them, scuff pad, wd40, mothers polish, and they still looked pretty crappy. So, I remembered an old trick someone used on bumpers, SOS pads. Would it work? You be the judge.

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Carpet looks really good. as for the sill plates. get yourself a large plastic bag or piece of plastic you can cover the sill plates with. then get some "yellow top" original easy off oven cleaner spray on the top of the sill plates and cover with plastic to help keep it "wet " for longer. wait an hour and take out rinse with water and fine 000 steel wool. see if all the anodizing has been removed, if not start again and another application till the gray smut is gone. polish to you hearts content, I'd use one of those drill mounted balls to help with the creases and curves. wax they'll look pretty good after that.