The inside.
The console and shifter are out of a '94 Olds Delta 88 (a front wheel drive car!!!). The seats (front and back) are adapted from a '96 Pontiac Bonneville. The instrument cluster is from a '92 Olds wagon. I bought the steering wheel at the swap meet at the Daytona Turkey Rod Run, I think it's out of a 92 Chevy Lumina.
Here are the back seats from a '96 Bonneville.
This is the little tab I made to grab the seat back's wire frame. The stock B-Body tabs are too low and inside of the ones for the Bonnie seat. I drilled through the trunk wall and just bolted them in location.
Overhead console donated by an S-10 Blazer. The headliner was falling apart from age anyway, so what better time to hack into it? The rough edges will be eliminated when the headliner is recovered.
Normally only the dome light is on with the doors open. We added a diode to each of the round lights so that they come on both with their own switch and with the dome light. Sure makes things brighter.
This is the display in the console, first at start-up then running.
As you can see, getting the console installed required some major butchery of the headliner. This is because this mod was pioneered by the 94-96 Impala SS community and their headliners are contoured and constructed differently than my 91. The newer headliner is layered fiberglass insulation, mine was a ridgid close-cell urethane foam. So I did some horse trading and got a 95 Impala headliner! I had it recovered in a charcoal that matches the console.
Next, GULP, I started cutting the new headliner to accept the console.
My buddy, Marv, came up with a way to fill the gap in the side of the console by peeling back the console's covering and inserting some scrap pieces of headliner and then gluing the cover to them.
And here is the final result!
Dashmat! It will flatten out once the sun gets it, I'll take new pics when it does.
Page 1: Introduction
Page 2: The Engine Swap
Page 3: Body Work
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Page 5: Brakes
Page 6: The Way Things Used To Be
