More pics of the dash and interior kits

[214Chevy]

Originally Posted by CG3D

What would you like to see?

(no harm taken!)

Well, I have a 72 Chevelle and when I click on interior to see your new Chevelle door panels nothing comes up. It's been that way for a while now. Very interested in the product so that's why I'm asking.

[CG3D]

It has always been our intention to get production panels out for the Chevelle guys. We began with the panels you may have seen a while back for the Goodguys giveaway Chevelle...
Link There are still some design changes we want to make to the panels.
A couple of big build projects have occupied a great deal of shop time recently, thus tying up any development time we have for new fiberglass parts. It looks to be that way for another couple of months.

We do everything ourselves, in house, from the design sketches and ideas to sculpting the plugs for new parts, prototyping, mold making and manufacturing the pieces. Being a small company, we have to get thrifty with where we balance fab time versus prototype time. Prototyping a brand new part is incredibly intensive both time and cost-wise. Right now we have more vehicles in the fab shop than we ever have had, which is great, we just need more hours in the day!

We hope to be expanding or interior parts line to the Chevelle crew pretty soon.
Stay tuned!


Chris

[prostreet69cama]

I am starting to put the interior in Marks 69 camaro. There is some pictures of the install from camaros.net. How did you mount the door panels to the doors since they have no back,,just a outer shell. Also have you made any defrost vents for the dash yet. We are going to the interior shop next month.

[CG3D]

Posted this elsewhere, but for the sake of reference:

You can attach the panels in a number of ways.
We have customers who have had great success with a double sided upholstery/trim style tape (foam type) - very sticky!
Many have used a hidden, or 'blind' fastener (I have heard them called 'Christmas tree clips' before) on the backside of the panel, located into a requisite hole on the door shell.
Others have used an oem approach, with a visible screw and washer like a factory setup.
We have plans for a defroster vent, however, not a production ready part yet.

Chris

[prostreet69cama]

Originally Posted by CG3D

Posted this elsewhere, but for the sake of reference:

You can attach the panels in a number of ways.
We have customers who have had great success with a double sided upholstery/trim style tape (foam type) - very sticky!
Many have used a hidden, or 'blind' fastener (I have heard them called 'Christmas tree clips' before) on the backside of the panel, located into a requisite hole on the door shell.
Others have used an oem approach, with a visible screw and washer like a factory setup.
We have plans for a defroster vent, however, not a production ready part yet.

Chris

I still dont see how this will work since your door panels have a 1/8" to 3/16" lip on the edge of the door panels. There is no way to use double stick tape on that thin of a lip.

Now if the door panels had a 1/2" lip on the back side then the clips or double sided tape will work.

Mike

[Matt@BOS]

Mike, we had to make little U shaped brackets to attach the "christmas tree clips" to. This way the bracket sat flush with the inside of the door. Depending on where we located the brackets, they needed to be between 1/2" and 1" tall.

Does this make sense? I'd provide pictures but I think I lost them all due to a corrupted card.

Matt

[prostreet69cama]

Originally Posted by 69MSA

Mike, we had to make little U shaped brackets to attach the "christmas tree clips" to. This way the bracket sat flush with the inside of the door. Depending on where we located the brackets, they needed to be between 1/2" and 1" tall.

Does this make sense? I'd provide pictures but I think I lost them all due to a corrupted card.

Matt

Thanks Matt,

From what you are saying is that you made "L" brackets. Then bolted/screwed them to the fiberglass door panel. Then used clips on the "L" bracket that inserted into holes on the door. That would work but the screw heads would need to be flush with the fiberglass so you dont see the indention from the screw head in the leather material.

[prostreet69cama]

Since I removed the metal dash to install the fiberglass dash where did you install the vin tag. I do not want to put it on top and am thinking of putting it on the drivers side lower dash. When you open the door you will see it.

Anyone have any other ideas?

[Matt@BOS]

Actually, the brackets we made look kinda like this, with the triangle representing the "christmas tree clip"
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This allows you to fiberglass the ends to the back of the door easily, meaning you won't have any exposed screws.

Also, any reason you don't want to mount the vin close to the where it originally was? I know some states like California, for example, are really picky about this, and technically I don't think you're supposed to tamper with, or remove the vin from its original location. This is what we did, and it doesn't look bad:


Matt

[bigtyme1]

Matt, that vin was moved forward correct? mine sits back futher