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Old Jul 7, 2013 | 09:42 PM
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Knock-off GM Floor Mats?

I had a buyer reply after buying these floor mats through Paypal and receiving them that these were not "the real ones for the car." (The buyer has a '92 Camaro.) I said they were NOS GM and sold them as such. I sent these pictures ahead of time:

The front:
http://s1115.photobucket.com/user/ro...35552837850787

The back:
http://s1115.photobucket.com/user/ro...32199378065336

I bought these back in 2007 from a very reputable seller who advertised them as NOS GM on Ebay. I thought they'd match my beechwood interior ('88-'91). They didn't match colorwise since I had bought the wrong color (but were an exact match except for that), and they sat in my closet until I recently remembered I had them. If these are fake knock-offs, they're really good ones. From what I understand, no one can reproduce the "GM" logo on these due to copyright laws, and if you look at these, you can see they weren't glued on fake mats since the reverse black matting shows the square indentation for these. If I let the buyer return them, I'm planning on reselling them as NOS GM mats. But, before doing so, I want to make sure the buyer's wrong and I'm right about their GM authenticity.
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Old Jul 7, 2013 | 10:35 PM
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Re: Knock-off GM Floor Mats?

Those appear to be the universal GM floor mats. They are not the exact originals for our ThirdGens. Below are the shapes of the originals.

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Old Jul 8, 2013 | 09:55 AM
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Re: Knock-off GM Floor Mats?

The Universal Mats are "Genuine GM" and they are listed as being a replacement mat for the firebird and Camaro... However they are not the same as the originals like JT shows.

Eclars, or Ecmonds or someone like that is making reproduction mats that do not have the GM logo... If you are creative, you can cut off the logo off the "Official" GM mat and then apply it to the Ecklars mat... Scott Moyer knows where to get them

John
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