1980 dodge d50, fiberglass project

I have a 1980 Dodge D50 I put a For 302 in it initially I had a manual trans which worked great but later decided to swap it out for an auto. With that the stock center console no longer fit and the one that came with my B&M shifter just wasn't cutting it. So I decided to mold the two of them together and put some gauges in it as well. Let me know what you guys think! I started by trimming the two of the consoles so they would fit together in the truck, then I used spray foam to fill in all the gaps and temporarily glue them together until it was glassed. Then it was just a matter of glass and body filler. For the gauge pod I cut toilet paper tubes in half and fit them around the gauges then more spray foam and glass. Here is the console pieces in place all trimmed The start of spray foam (Just an FYI fiberglass resign does not attack this stuff) Big mess of foam waiting to be sanded down Almost ready for glass now... 4 layers of glass later... Toilet paper tube cut in half with another added in to get the right size then wrapped in fiberglass makes the gauge pods... Here they are glued in place Foamed ready to take shape Sanded down ready for glass... Glassed with body filler started, and you get an idea of what the gauges look like now... Finally painted gauges installed... Installed in the truck I had the gauges out to get everything hooked back up, forgot to take a picture after. I will get one soon, I hope... Let me know what ya think! wdtsf

Thanks, you mean how hard does the foam get? It's still a bit spongy but really not to bad at all. Sanding it by hand can be a bit of a pain because it wants to break off into chunks I ended up using a sanding disk and an angle grinder to ruff it out. Wasn't too bad though.wdtsf

 another great foam to use is floral foam the green stuff they put flowers into you can sand it veeeeeeery easy....they sell it at wal-mart

I thought about going that route but it would not have filled in the gaps the way I needed.wdtsf