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Old 03-23-2010, 10:18 PM
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It's made from particleboard (by design, I think it disintegrates in an accident); making the little retainer clips in the front might be tricky unless they are available. My carpet was shot on the 380SL, and I didn't want to spend a lot on it, so I bought "speaker carpet", which is what traveling bands cover speaker/equipment cabinets with; although it looks good in black, this is a bad idea if you actually intend to use it for anything (i.e., transporting dogs). It's impossible to clean without resorting to cheap Harbor Freight tape (a vacuum won't work); I can see that it really isn't all that durable, either (I think it's called "unstructured" carpet and doesn't have any real sewing or backing).

I don't think that these are particularly rare at the junkyard. Maybe rarer, unmolested (with speaker holes, for example).
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