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While I cannot give a definitive price, I will tell you that part of the reason why they were discontinued is the price of the labor to install the mat (semi-correctly) had risen to where Tom felt it was cost prohibitive to continue production. The retail pricing was about $400 a set and I would imagine if there is another run of those, there will be no wholesale deal and the retail will probably be between $400 -$500 a set. I realize that puts this in a range that is unaffordable for some, ...and that is OK and no guilt should be felt. If we can indeed pull this off, it will be more of a specialty run and probably a one-time deal.

Peter, I would be for seeing if we can get these boards minus the Rootlieb trim and order/install Bob's trim seperately.


Let me close by offering two other thoughts. A friend of mine & I were chatting one day and he told me that he has started to buy the high-quality & specialty parts for his cars now even though he is not ready to begin restoring those cars simply because you never know when production on some of these items will cease due to economics or the owner retiring. The "best quality available" running boards are a great example of this. The 2nd thought is if there is someone out there reading this who is wanting to earn some extra income, this is another one of those situations where there is a small niche market for someone to fill. It will take some creativity on their part but several of us can help with the networking connecting that person up to key people who make the running board, and the matting, and the trim.