Type 65 / Nippy floor covering

[Andy Bennett]

Hi Tiger
Yes that's what i did, just made a cardboard template to set out the holes for handbrake, greasing access etc wrapped it over, tucked it under the floor mats. Stuck it down with sikaflex black so that it looks more formed than wrapped and away you go.

Andy

[Mick Hobday]

"3mm castle profile rubber". What is that?

[Colin Wilks]

I have ordered the mats from Jamie at Seven Workshop, who says they fit his Nippy. I will be getting some rubber to suit to fabricate a transmission tunnel cover.

[Dennis Nicholas]

Just a thought - - -  any wet getting under rubber mats will stay forever tiil mats lifted and floor dried out.....rust promotion.  At least with carpeting there can be drying out by normal evaporation.  My Nippy special has had to have new floors and 2 other bodies are also a bit rotted.  I intend to carpet once back on road.

Dennis

[Hedd_Jones]

Having scrapped many cars (father was a scrap man) the root cause for most rotten floors seemed to be sodden carpet. Things like vans with rubber seemed to suffer less, though certainly not immune. I'd regularly have to sit in cortinas amd escorts to be pulled out of fields etc to steer them and theyd often have little or no floor. The contemporary transits suffered in the door step area, but the bit around the pedals would be fine.

[Colin Wilks]

I think the trick is never to put the car away wet, lift the floor coverings regularly and de-humidify the garage over winter.

[Mike Costigan]

Having scrapped many cars (father was a scrap man) the root cause for most rotten floors seemed to be sodden carpet. Things like vans with rubber seemed to suffer less, though certainly not immune. I'd regularly have to sit in Cortinas and Escorts to be pulled out of fields etc to steer them and they'd often have little or no floor. The contemporary transits suffered in the door step area, but the bit around the pedals would be fine.

Agreed, although sitting over grass/earth is a sure way of achieving a floorless structure, with or without damp carpets!