Red Carpet

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Red Carpet

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Does anyone have black seats and door panels with red carpet>? If so can you post a photo.
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kilrwail
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This doesn't show much, but I can take more if you identify the area you're interested in seeing.

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Kilrwail

Thanks and nice car. Your photo helped. My car is black and everything on the inside is black. I am planning of replacing the carpet soon and not sure if I want to put in black or replace the grayish color that is in there. I am actually thing of going with red or another color just to give the interior some contrast. Do you happen to have a photo that shows more of the front area? If not dont worry about it.
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Thanks. Here's a wider shot for you, with the rubber protective mat removed. They need a good cleaning, but you can see the true colour where the mat was. They're original so I can't tell where you could duplicate this colour. It's very close to Guard's Red - much brighter than the exterior paint.

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1978 Fiat 124 Sport Spider - original owner
1977 Porsche 911S - track car
2022 Ram 4 x 4 - hauler
PCA National Instructor and Motorsport Safety Foundation Level 2 Instructor
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Kilrwail,

Thanks once again. That is perfect. I think I might be going with the red carpet.
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Kilrwail,

You have a red horn button! Is that that stock? I had assumed they were all yellow/gold since mine, manoa matt's and a parts car I looked at were all the same color
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Boogie

My Horn button is red.
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My horn button is red.
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manoa matt
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My ears' are burning, someone talking about my horn button? I think Kirail's camera does not have red-eye reduction.

A very red/unfaded and uncracked early horn button is as rare as hen's teeth, been looking for one for years.
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manoa matt wrote:My ears' are burning, someone talking about my horn button? I think Kirail's camera does not have red-eye reduction.

A very red/unfaded and uncracked early horn button is as rare as hen's teeth, been looking for one for years.
That car out in waimanalo has a yellow uncracked button, BUT it is foggy as hell. You can barely see through it

Were there only two colors of horn buttons installed? Or did they match the stock paint color?
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It's red, uncracked, unfaded and original. It hasn't been parked out in the sun very much.

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Re: Red Carpet

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If the plastic itself is foggy then it can be buffed out to restore the shine, I did that to my last one. If the red inter layer is faded, not much you can do.
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