Operation CUPHOLDER (first attempt)
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Melting Slicks
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From: Montreal Qc.
Operation CUPHOLDER (first attempt)
Here we go, removed the lame original console, and built the "ugly wooden box". Here is the final result. It needs a bit of tweaking. The covering isn't perfect especially over the e-brake, and the lid is too wide at the back, it needs to taper between the seats. It'll do for now, I'll work on Cupholder Mark II over the winter.
Please no comments on the ripped seat covers, that another project for another day
Please no comments on the ripped seat covers, that another project for another day
Le Mans Master
Joined: Jun 2002
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From: I can walk to MA
DEP - you gotta pull a few of those nails out of your head, dude.
We all endured the many posts that extolled your ability to
burn a music CD. Oldies at that. Geeeez.
There is no 100% rating anymore. When someone keeps
criticizing everyone elses posts - they just get the boot - no 80% BS.
When you say old timers - what - the last two years ?!?!
There are still plenty of people here that have been around LONG before you or I.
I think the cup holder came out OK, plus it is also storage and
an armrest - for those with SB engine and can drive with one hand.
What vehicle donated the pull-out plastic part ??
We all endured the many posts that extolled your ability to
burn a music CD. Oldies at that. Geeeez.
There is no 100% rating anymore. When someone keeps
criticizing everyone elses posts - they just get the boot - no 80% BS.
When you say old timers - what - the last two years ?!?!
There are still plenty of people here that have been around LONG before you or I.
I think the cup holder came out OK, plus it is also storage and
an armrest - for those with SB engine and can drive with one hand.
What vehicle donated the pull-out plastic part ??
Le Mans Master
Joined: Oct 2002
Posts: 5,714
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From: Silver City NM
St. Jude Donor '05-'07
Originally Posted by NHvette
DEP - you gotta pull a few of those nails out of your head, dude.
We all endured the many posts that extolled your ability to
burn a music CD. Oldies at that. Geeeez.
There is no 100% rating anymore. When someone keeps
criticizing everyone elses posts - they just get the boot - no 80% BS.
When you say old timers - what - the last two years ?!?!
There are still plenty of people here that have been around LONG before you or I.
I think the cup holder came out OK, plus it is also storage and
an armrest - for those with SB engine and can drive with one hand.
What vehicle donated the pull-out plastic part ??
We all endured the many posts that extolled your ability to
burn a music CD. Oldies at that. Geeeez.
There is no 100% rating anymore. When someone keeps
criticizing everyone elses posts - they just get the boot - no 80% BS.
When you say old timers - what - the last two years ?!?!
There are still plenty of people here that have been around LONG before you or I.
I think the cup holder came out OK, plus it is also storage and
an armrest - for those with SB engine and can drive with one hand.
What vehicle donated the pull-out plastic part ??
I would have thought the priority for this car would have been to get the "slasher" seat and dented door panel fixed before a cupholder.
Dep
P.S. If criticism is banned on the forum, then I'm outta here. I don't need no stankin group huggs. What's next...raving about newly installed fender skirts and dingle ***** around the windows??
Last edited by DJ Dep; Aug 18, 2004 at 06:55 PM.
Pro
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From: Atascadero Ca
jeeze guys. Its just a cupholder. He's just messing around trying to make his vette more comfortable. Good for you. The ripped seats don't stop him from driving it every day, and i've been wishing for an armrest and a place to store cd's in the vette for years. Would you rather he sold the vette and started "tuning" on a civic? Good work man. Keep it up.
Le Mans Master
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From: Silver City NM
St. Jude Donor '05-'07
Good grief. Did all the C5 people suddenly migrate to this forum or what??? The longest running joke on the C3 forum was the "cupholder crowd" on the C5 forum. Ack! I'm outta here!
Dep
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Pro
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From: Atascadero Ca
if the cupholder crowd was a joke, you guys really need new senses of humor. Try living in 100+ weather and driving a 4 speed and holding your coke. I don't know about you, but my ***** do not enjoy being cold.
Le Mans Master
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From: Silver City NM
St. Jude Donor '05-'07
Originally Posted by Jeff 6T9
See ya Dep. What's the difference between Star79 doing something that makes his car more practical/comfortable, for him, and you doing something that makes yours faster/more practical for you?
Dep
Melting Slicks
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St. Jude Donor '03,'11
Originally Posted by i885744
if the cupholder crowd was a joke, you guys really need new senses of humor. Try living in 100+ weather and driving a 4 speed and holding your coke. I don't know about you, but my ***** do not enjoy being cold.
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Melting Slicks
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From: Montreal Qc.
Originally Posted by DJ Dep
I would have thought the priority for this car would have been to get the "slasher" seat and dented door panel fixed before a cupholder.
Oh, and the cupholder came from a wrecked Tercel for 2 bucks in the junkyard.
<<<---- now I got somewhere to put my mug
Pro
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From: Atlanta GA
no offense to the cup-btwn-the-legs guys, but when i go driving, no cupholder in the world's gonna keep my coffee from spilling, and ain't no way it's going betwen my legs . . .
. . .that said, nice fabrication, Star79
. . .that said, nice fabrication, Star79
Le Mans Master
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From: Silver City NM
St. Jude Donor '05-'07
Star: We're just yankin your chain. Don't take it personal or anything. C3 owners have always poked fun at the cupholder crowd at the C5 area. 
DropTopBigBlock: Just think...if it spilled you could SUE and by a NEW Vette like that idiot female at McDonalds!!!
Dep...fabricatin an underseat ice cube tray to cool his equipment
DropTopBigBlock: Just think...if it spilled you could SUE and by a NEW Vette like that idiot female at McDonalds!!!
Dep...fabricatin an underseat ice cube tray to cool his equipment
&amp;quot;Rodstoration &am p;quot; In Progres
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From: Frisco TX
Originally Posted by Star79
Here we go, removed the lame original console, and built the "ugly wooden box". Here is the final result. It needs a bit of tweaking. The covering isn't perfect especially over the e-brake, and the lid is too wide at the back, it needs to taper between the seats. It'll do for now, I'll work on Cupholder Mark II over the winter.
Please no comments on the ripped seat covers, that another project for another day
Please no comments on the ripped seat covers, that another project for another day
Congrats on taking this project on and making it work! It's a heck of a lot more fun than buying prefabed stuff. Way to go!
Safety Car
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Originally Posted by Star79
<<<---- now I got somewhere to put my mug
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Melting Slicks
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From: Montreal Qc.
Originally Posted by DJ Dep
Star: We're just yankin your chain. Don't take it personal or anything. C3 owners have always poked fun at the cupholder crowd at the C5 area.
DropTopBigBlock: Just think...if it spilled you could SUE and by a NEW Vette like that idiot female at McDonalds!!!
Dep...fabricatin an underseat ice cube tray to cool his equipment
DropTopBigBlock: Just think...if it spilled you could SUE and by a NEW Vette like that idiot female at McDonalds!!!
Dep...fabricatin an underseat ice cube tray to cool his equipment
If I had actually cared I could have recovered my seats with PhotoShop before I posted the pics.