Guys with original consoles..., is there full carpet underneath? Options

[FlacaProductions]

My car did not originally come from the factory with a 3-gauge center console.

PO installed one. I recently swapped that one for a cosmetically better one.

Did cars that came from the factory with a console have a full-length piece of carpet under the console, covering the tunnel and around the shifter just like cars without the console?

[914werke]

yes

[FlacaProductions]

Thank you - I wondered because it seems extra hard to get to the shifter adjustment with a console in place - AND - the carpet under that.

[wonkipop]

Thank you - I wondered because it seems extra hard to get to the shifter adjustment with a console in place - AND - the carpet under that.

original carpet or aftermarket carpet?

[FlacaProductions]

I think it's original. it is set up like all you had to do is add back the OEM rubber shifter boot and you'd be good to go.

Now, in order to adjust the shifter or replace bushings, etc. you'd have to remove the shift knob, pull up and remove the console panel with leather boot and then you still have a layer of carpet over the shifter.

If you didn't have the console, you could easily pull the center tunnel carpet out and the shifter base is right there.

Seems to me that if you have the console, you wouldn't want/need the carpet under there and I was wondering if there was a different piece for consoles that just went down the outer edges of the tunnel - OR - if it was just covered with the vinyl that is in other places under/around the seats.

[wonkipop]

I think it's original. it is set up like all you had to do is add back the OEM rubber shifter boot and you'd be good to go.

Now, in order to adjust the shifter or replace bushings, etc. you'd have to remove the shift knob, pull up and remove the console panel with leather boot and then you still have a layer of carpet over the shifter.

If you didn't have the console, you could easily pull the center tunnel carpet out and the shifter base is right there.

Seems to me that if you have the console, you wouldn't want/need the carpet under there and I was wondering if there was a different piece for consoles that just went down the outer edges of the tunnel - OR - if it was just covered with the vinyl that is in other places under/around the seats.

ask @StarBear - his is original 74 with console (appearance group) and had original carpets he recently replaced with NOS stock. pretty sure the carpet piece was in there under the console.

i would have thought the console could be manouvered up over the gear shifter knob.
think it has a hole there big enough?
certainly the original carpet has a hole large enough to get past the shifter knob, but then again is a lot more flexible than wrestling with a console.

[wonkipop]

page from factory workshop manual.

carpet is there.



tells you to remove gearshift knob.
thats pretty tedious (given how fragile those f#$kers are).
i assume the gaiter won't get past the knob?
(thanking my lucky stars now i don't have a console, instead the storage bin which is very useful).
i would have thought you could manouver what remains of the console around enough with the bottom panel and guage panel out and some screws loosened to lift the carpet.
its a moulded carpet if factory and not glued down. and kind of leave everything there but out of the way to get at the base of the shifter.