Re: Carpet Floors Mats for 56 Caribbean Wanted

Posted by Leeedy On 2017/8/21 15:46:06
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ssb15 wrote:
My car has the original carpet. I was interested in what floor mats look like for 56 Caribbean? Does anyone have photos of what the multicolored floor mats looked like? I would especially love to see what the multicolored car mats look like since I have multi colored paint.


"Car-Pets" were one of 3 different factory accessory floor mats offered in 1956. Car-Pets were color coordinated, but they were not multi-colored. Just one color. They came in brown, black, and gray from what I recall.There may have been other colors as well.

When my 1956 Caribbean convertible was stolen, I had a NOS set of Car-Pets in the original box in the car. They were in brown color. At one time I had several sets of these, but this was my last set and they disappeared forever.

Car-Pets were a Packard factory accessory and were like carpet on one side and textured vinyl on the other. They were held in place with special snaps that were screwed into the floor of your car. Thus they were removable for cleaning.

Today, nobody seems to recall this Packard accessory floor mat for 1956. There was also a rubber floor mat that had a color V8 circle and V symbol. I only ever had one set of these and they also disappeared. The third type of floor mat was the black rubber "Packard" ones that are fairly common today.

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