My Monte was stripped out when I bought it, and none of the original interior was given to me. I can live with no trim for a while. I however desperately want a back seat. This leaves me with three options:

1:Look for the rest of my life and maybe find a correct, third gen rear seat, when I have the money for it.

2:Grab a fourth gen rear seat from the local JY and make it fit.

3:Adapt two (leather)buckets that I already have, and make a console. This one would be the most custom as I would have storage, cupholders, and some speakers in the console/trunk divider thing.

Keep in mind that basically nothing on this car is original, alot of the interior is aluminum, and I am going for a street machine/custom muscle look.

Let the opinions fly......
Jake

 

Well lets see what you have to work with so far for ideas...and welcome to the forum!

 

are you good with wood? you can build the base for a center console out of some MDF boards, round the edges a bit, build some nifty pockets, and wrap it in leather, pleather, what ever you want. you can use bondo to do some things, or what ever you'd like it to look like.

 

For a console I would build it out of aluminum, which I`m more at home with than wood. The whole interior is going to be black/natural aluminum.

Like this(but a little less complex, and with a black armrest):



I will also cover the whole trunk opening with aluminum. That`s where I would mount the speaker(s). I jacked the pics off photobucket.

 

impressive workmanship how did you do the connections? do you braze alumminum or did you weld it or rivits\bolts?

 

Wow! That looks super!

 

Not mine, hence the "like this". That is also in a ford pickup.

I agree though, that is very nice. Mine will *likely* be a bit more angled, and the construction will be bent with a few rivets/bolts.(buddy of mine has the machine for bending sheet metal, forget what it`s called, want to say press brake?)

 

thats dirty =D

 

yes, it is called a brake. has a big handle and you splid the piece in and almost fold it to the bend you need? if so then it is a brake.

I think the bucket seats would look awesome. Custom is better that original anyway

I would buff it up real nice and get rid of some of the "scratchy" looking marks aluminum can have after working with it, then hit it with some rattle can silver/color of choice (brushed aluminum replica imo) and clear coat it to give it a good shine

 

I take it everyone likes #3 then.....

To Fogerty,
Ya, a brake it is. Thanks for the opinion