Not to confuse the progress report, but I did tear out the carpet last year to get rid of mold and moisture before putting the car away. Unfortunately, I wound up with tons of glued-in fuzz which I'll have to strip out. I won't be installing a new carpet, so the floor itself will need to look better than new before the seats go in.
This might be a sub-project that takes place along with the wheels and tires, just because it's already started. On a side note, for some strange reason the enormous floor shifter is one of my favorite parts of the car. No center console, because there's no transmission tunnel - the floor shifter is really a FLOOR shifter.