Re: [alfa] Spider floormat sources? Group purchase on custom embroidery?

[Benjamin Kaupp <bkaupp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 08:59  AM, Karl Robrock wrote:

> Hi all,
> I was looking into getting new floormats for my '91 spider. They are 
> in great
> condition, but the embroidery on the driver's side is worn.
> I was investigating getting new mats, but IAP's supplier will no 
> longer make
> mats with the alfa emblem, and Alfa no longer sells the floormats! 
> Somebody
> PLEASE tell me what that is all about! Is alfa just trying to piss us 
> all
> off?
It has nothing to do with Alfa, per se... Most floormats with logos 
these days are supplied by LloydMats <http://www.lloydmats.com> and 
they got sued a few years back for unauthorized reproduction of logos 
(or so the story goes) so they stopped making any logos until they had 
full permission from the companies involved.
Of course, it snowballed from there and now nobody will give you an 
Alfa Romeo (or Audi or BMW... I've had this problem before) because 
they're scared of the RIAA. Oh wait... That's a different group pissed 
off that they can't overcharge... My bad.

-Ben Kaupp
'78 Spider (gettin' clutched as we speak. er... type)
'90 Isuzu Trooper (sold in 15 minutes thanks to craigslist)
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