70 Camaro - Boise, Idaho

[Goosesdad]

Finishing the center console. I wanted to use some factory parts as the basis of design here. Not sure I would do this again as blending plastic, fiberglass and MDF presents some challenges that most obviously just solve by doing this out of metal. But I'm down the path so I'm sticking with it.

All of this will get covered with leather but one of the problems I haven't been able to solve is getting any glues or filler to stick to this plastic. I've been using a plastic welder and plastic filler rod which works great for getting the general shape down but smoothing is difficult. Would be great to use body filler but it doesn't stick. I've tried every version of plastic glue I could find. Nothing sticks, might as well be putting the glue on wax cause it just peels off.

Not a real big deal as the leather will hide most of the imperfections, just would make shaping this easier.

Started a while ago with some used parts sourced from the junkyard and some new (cup holders) from eBay. Morphing it all together over the next few weeks.


I built that rear piece (gray) long ago. The EStopp is under that area.


Started a little storage area under the waterfall.


Beginning the waterfall.


Here is the start of changing the center console shape. Started with the swoop (drivers side) and modified it to go straight. This will make sense later but you can see where the plastic welder was used to reweld the section flat after I cut it and then used heat to flex it flat. The welding process works real easy but as you can imagine, the plastic doesn't sand very well so smoothing it would be awesome with some filler. Anyone have any thoughts?