Thread: Fiberglass center console

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I have been working on this for several months now when I had time that couldn't easily be spent doing something more productive on the car. I have finally gotten to a point where I can say I am about done.

I started by taking the console out of my '98 Blazer as I liked the overall shape and curves of it, but it was too wide and from the seats forward the Blazer console is not symetrical so I had to go from scratch there. Looking back it would have been easier and cheaper to use a manual Blazer console (actually found a good deal after I had started but since I had started I only bought the lid and a couple other pieces instead of the whole console), cut it down the middle, tweak a couple things and call it done, but the $200 prices I was seeing scared me away from that (again likely not much difference in the end). So here are a few pictures.







All that is left is to mount it, attach the shift and e brake boots, figure out the hinge and lid and later on probably wrap it in ultra leather. My original plan was to paint it gloss black so I spent extra time smoothing it all out, but I'm afraid it might look a little too mini truck and not hold up as well over time as wrapping it will. I also plan to add a piece on the end with a vertical face plate (basically how the Blazer console it in the first pic) to mount the heater controls and maybe a charger plug (no AC), but it is getting too cold and I decided to make it a seperate piece to hopefully ease the wrapping process. This was my first real experience with fiberglass (and filler really) and I'm pretty happy with it. So how did I do?