Van/Pickup Rubber matting N.O.S. why the high price!!

[IaininTenbury]

Wow, looks like we're set for a new price record here! I sold a tatty one afew years back for £100 and thought I'd done really well, but with this I suppose its a case of if you think its expensive, go and buy a cheaper one - you can't...
Nice in a way to see that originality is appreciated, though I don't think you'd loose that many points in concours if you had carpet, whichg I think is accepted. Thinking about it, Robin Beardmore's Series 2 PO van has a replica rubber mat made from ribbed matting, cut and glued with edging strips which looks pretty much as close as you'll get.
It'd be nice to think that the winner of this would use it to make replicas as has been suggested. The mat would give the pattern and texture and supporting it with a floor pan / gearbox cover woudl give the shape, but I doubt the potential market would make a run of replicas worthwhile as carpet sets are around £50 and for general use are nicer!

[Kevin]

£530 and with a protection bid, I wonder if someone on here will let us know if they win it.

[ptitterington]

what is a protection bid?
Also I would be a bit worried that he is a new ebay member.

[LouiseM]

Well the current top bidder is showing as having placed two identical bids for £530. The second bid will actually be for a higher amount, presumably to 'protect' themselves against someone outbidding them at the last moment. Not sure why people just don't submit one bid, for the amount they are prepared to pay, then stick to it, but obviously if someone wants it desparately enough then money is no object. A NOS late Minor heater sold for £460 last week and I've owned cars that cost less than that! Recession, what recession?

[MarkyB]

Crikey, still nearly 2 hours to run!

Shall we open a book on what it will reach in the last minute bidding frenzy?
I'm thinking it could hit the best part of £1000.

[irmscher]

£600 tops it will be better than watching the f1

[LouiseM]

It sold for £720 with the previous high bidder being pipped at the post in the last second.

[ptitterington]

I bet a few folk will be looking in their lofts for an unused rubber mat ordered by mistake many years ago!!

[Matt]

I wonder how much one would have cost new, and taking inflation etc in to account what the equivilant is now!

[bmcecosse]

Buyer with more money than sense............ But then - someone just paid £51.6 million for a ratty old vase......... I mean - to stick some flowers in!! Madness........

[ptitterington]

I know could not help it, I posted a good mates details on local free sale site.
http://jerseyinsight.com/classified_1.a ... d=2:348437

He has done far worse to me!

[bjm38]

I wouldn't like to try pulling a mould off that ebay-ed mat, given the folds and thin-ness.

Naive question coming up now - how much effort has gone into tracing surviving tooling for parts? Surely something like LCV matting would have been supplied by some (relatively) small firm.

Bernard.