I've decided I want something for an overhead console in my truck to spruce up the interior and give me somewhere outside of the seat to throw stuff. Also, with all of my gauges down by my shifter I'm out of space for toggle switches and stuff and have a few other things I still want to add to the truck. As it stands, I am getting a 5 pod horizontal gauge holder to put the gauges by my shifter in as it doesn't look bad down there but it's certainly going to look better when they are all in the same color and one piece pod versus a bunch of different colors and all drilled into the dash as close as possible.
I realized that buying one is going to be next to impossible as these trucks weren't exactly common. But, my dad is a carpenter with a giant wood working shop who has went as far as to go into stores and take measurements of cabinets and dressers and stuff mom's wanted and go home and just make it for her and save hundreds of dollars and you can't tell the difference. He's very good at this type of stuff. Half of the time he's done it with no measurements and just guessed sizes and it's came out very well.
I can always just show him pictures of what the things look like from a google image search, but I was curious if anyone here has one in their truck if the could tell me a few basic dimensions to give us a starting point, or take some more HD pictures of one as google's images are mostly older and pretty scaled down.
I'm probably going to put both the factory dome light and the custom second row dome light (same light just a second one of it) in the console and stretch it back that far and put some led light strips on the side.
Might try to make it a little bit different in terms of the front box as well. No slot for cb radio, just a flat panel for toggle switches and a box for sunglasses and misc junk with some extra lights that I'll wire into the door opened switch.
I realized that buying one is going to be next to impossible as these trucks weren't exactly common. But, my dad is a carpenter with a giant wood working shop who has went as far as to go into stores and take measurements of cabinets and dressers and stuff mom's wanted and go home and just make it for her and save hundreds of dollars and you can't tell the difference. He's very good at this type of stuff. Half of the time he's done it with no measurements and just guessed sizes and it's came out very well.
I can always just show him pictures of what the things look like from a google image search, but I was curious if anyone here has one in their truck if the could tell me a few basic dimensions to give us a starting point, or take some more HD pictures of one as google's images are mostly older and pretty scaled down.
I'm probably going to put both the factory dome light and the custom second row dome light (same light just a second one of it) in the console and stretch it back that far and put some led light strips on the side.
Might try to make it a little bit different in terms of the front box as well. No slot for cb radio, just a flat panel for toggle switches and a box for sunglasses and misc junk with some extra lights that I'll wire into the door opened switch.
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