Posted by Gordon on Friday, June 01, 2001 at 3:29AM :
In Reply to: GLOVE BOXES???? posted by Randy Baker on Friday, June 01, 2001 at 0:52AM :
I can't help it, I'm just too mean to buy these things.... 8-)
Gary Roberts at Roberts Motor Parts had them listed for about US20 or thereabouts I remember, he has pickup headliners and kick panels, that sort of thing.
My VC 3 had the original glove box in it, but it was falling apart. It was really straightforward to take some headliner material(reversed with the headliner coating outside), lay out the old glovebox flat on it, draw round it, fold, and then rivet the seam together with washered 1/8" pop rivets. The back panel can be put in (as originally) with a heavy duty stapler.
Only change I made was to replace the screw nuts on the top rear edge with a strip of thin metal drilled to take self-tapping screws the same size - much stronger. Takes an hour or two per truck and I normally do it while the paint dries on the glove box door frame before I re-cover it.
So far I've replaced the glove box and rebuilt the glovebox doors on the VC 3, WC 36, WC 38 - even made one for Rick Jones VK 62B bus.
I'm not interested in making up a pile and selling them - couldn't beat Gary's price by the time I added postage from here in Scotland, but it anyone really wants the dimensions I could draw up my tatty original and e-mail a sketch. The image is the VC 3 cab interior with rebuilt glovebox door. The firewall pad, headliner, and glovebox liner are all made from the same trim board.
Gordon
PS the trick with re-skinning the glovebox door is to use metal so thin you can nearly see through it - spot weld the corners and then just turn over the edges all the way round.
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