Re: Bugeye door covering

I have the original door liners from my Bugeye too and I found that the ACE 
hardware near me has floor runner material with the correct profile.  Nice 
rounded peaks and valleys.  But the rib size and spacing is wrong.  The 
original liners have 6 ribs per inch while the floor runner material has 8 
ribs per inch.  Close enough for me!  Concours my patoot.  :-)

No disrespect intended to the concours guys out there, but my car is for me. 
I went to the hardware store and bought what I thought looked good and close 
enough to fool most people.

Rick
'59 Sprite (owned it for 37 years)
'61 Sprite (deep pink - future vintage racer)

----- Original Message ----- 
From "Biff" <biffjones at erols.com>
To: "spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 11:10 AM
Subject: Re: Bugeye door covering


>I have a couple of pieces of 'original' door matting and have not found
> anything close to it. As Rick says ACE has rubber matting in a ribbed 
> pattern
> but the ribs are square on the tops whereas the original matting has peaks 
> and
> valleys with sharp edges not square. A side profile would look like this
> Original
> WWWWWWWWWWWW
>
> Biff Jones
> '59 Bugeye 'Kermit'
> '61 AH Sprite 'Ole Gray' in "The Healey Book"
> '71 Midget 'Freebie"