Guys with original consoles..., is there full carpet underneath? Options

[FlacaProductions]

My car did not originally come from the factory with a 3-gauge center console.

PO installed one. I recently swapped that one for a cosmetically better one.

Did cars that came from the factory with a console have a full-length piece of carpet under the console, covering the tunnel and around the shifter just like cars without the console?

[wonkipop]

page from factory workshop manual.

carpet is there.



tells you to remove gearshift knob.
thats pretty tedious (given how fragile those f#$kers are).
i assume the gaiter won't get past the knob?
(thanking my lucky stars now i don't have a console, instead the storage bin which is very useful).
i would have thought you could manouver what remains of the console around enough with the bottom panel and guage panel out and some screws loosened to lift the carpet.
its a moulded carpet if factory and not glued down. and kind of leave everything there but out of the way to get at the base of the shifter.