The carpets from the Nissan dealer require no cutting. They just lay in place.

Just how much cutting is required with the moulded carpets?

The original carpet is only lightly molded; the Datsun 1200 floor is quite square compared to most vehicles. There are four pieces:

Front R.H.
Front Tunnel
Front L.H.
Rear (also covers under seat area)

Compared to other cars, it's very easy to carpet a 1200 from bulk material.

A moulded carpet means that it has been shaped to fit the contours of your specific car, eg the tranny tunnel, etc. With these, there is a lot less fiddling around than carpet straight off a roll. I recently fitted moulded carpets to my 120Y and there were only a few headaches. The trick is to not rush the job and don't cut ANYTHING until you are 1000% sure.

moulded carpet is what exactly? just the same as the original carpet? stitched etc to shape?

I am getting new interior carpet in my 1200 from Knox Auto Carpets in Melbourne, Australia. Their moulded 1200 carpet for a car is A$105 + A$50 shipping to NZ. There is a firm in Auckland who quoted me NZ$220 + shipping for 1200 carpet. Knox Auto CarpetsKnox Auto Carpets

if you can afford it, the best bet is to pay an expert trimmer to do it, the next option would be a "truefit" moulded carpet from rare spares. I have seen some real hash jobs by people trying to do it by themselves and it ultimately cost more in the end.

Just wondering what you guys have done when wanting to put new carpet into your 1200, my 12 currenly has no carpet just plain old metal under my feet, im wanting to put in some carpet, would you reckon just get some speaker carpet and do it myself or get an auto interior to do it? cheers