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| | | | Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 2,168 A teacher, but always an apprentice. | | A teacher, but always an apprentice. Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 2,168 | Just thinking ahead here... But has anybody fabricated their own inside glove box out of sheet metal? Those reproductions look pretty...made in China. | | | | | Joined: Jan 2016 Posts: 23 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Jan 2016 Posts: 23 | For my '59 I lined the repro glovebox with oak veneer. Wasn't hard to do and not in the least authentic but it looks kinda cool. I thought about using metal but the added noise of flashlight and other random junk rattling around in a metal box maybe not so good?
1959 Fleetside Apache Deluxe Shortbed
| | | | | Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,275 Renaissance Man | | Renaissance Man Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,275 | The guy who used to own my '49 made one out of galvanized furnace duct metal. He must have done duct work for a living. He had all of the sweet crimps and even put in the X reinforcement creases in it! It will be going back in upon truck reassembly!
Carl
1952 5-window - return to "as built" condition | 1950 3100 with a 235 and a T-5 transmission
| | | | | Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 2,168 A teacher, but always an apprentice. | | A teacher, but always an apprentice. Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 2,168 | Do you have a picture Carl? Thanks. | | | | | Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 2,307 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 2,307 | Try fiberglass worked great using the old one as a mold | | | | | Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 3,399 Gas Pumper | | Gas Pumper Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 3,399 | I had the drawers under the seat pedestal on my project done by a Duct maker who loves his job. I am absolutely going to call them, give them the new cardboard version and have a few made if they will do it. Great Idea! Not opposed in general to fiberglass, but IMHO and just MY opinion, not that fiberglass isn't a great answer, Fiberglass doesn't belong on a 1950 Chevy Truck. Neither does CARDBOARD! LOL!
M-E-M-O-R-I-E-S: Mouse crap, walnut shells, upholstery cotton, etc, etc living in the cardboard glovebox. If a mouse/rat/opossum can eat through it, it's OUT! | | |
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