Type 65 / Nippy floor covering

[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!