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It also looks like the moulding of the rubber includes three types of patterns - flat, ribbed and "grained".
So it looks like the easiest option is to order the corrugated rubber floor mats as above, and cut to size? Is there any need for edge treatment?
https://www.americanfloormats.com/corrugated-rubber-runner-mats/
Personally I'd like Coco mats but the rubber is a great idea.
*$#@ ing Black Tiger floor mats. I have one set of those original Tiger floor mats in one car too small but nice.
PS what other rubber parts are unobtainable. I have a good contact with some guys that make some small motorcycle parts.
Unfortunately some things for our cars is now unobtanium! Concours judging requires a bit of common sense by judges I have never seen a set of original rubber mats in 50 years of Alpine ownership.That Ebay ad has a list of what cars they cover. Was thinking same thing about pattern accuracy and making one's own. The material from american floor mats also looks more "correct."
I probably shouldn't say what might be apparent, or maybe not apparent or even true. I don't know. But appears (to me, with my limited knowledge of rubber making), the only way to get reproduction mats is for someone with original mats in good shape to take a chance of using those mats to make a mold.
Might be harmful to the mats. I don't know.
Or might start a trophy throwing tantrum back at the hotel after a concours meet because the judges deducted a point for having gypsum residue under the seat on the corner of an original mat. My apologies, please.
Seems to me that maintaining an Alpine today is just taking what you can get. Photos, original, reproduction, whatever is available. Certainly don't mean to pi$$ anybody off here and get nothing.
Can't just throw money at things and make them happen. But I'm certainly up for that part of it, if someone can envision a successful plan to make an original looking rubber floor mat.
This seems like a legitimate and appropriate question, to me, at least, that hopefully, someone might have some knowledge of. It's been a while, but I think I remember donating to the Archive effort. If not for Sunbeam owners, then who are the archives for?Who do you contact at the Rootes Archive to find out if drawings exist for floor mats? Is there a fee involved for such a service? I know some drawings were obtained for rubber window moldings.