I'm getting a U6 convertible delivered in a few days. And I believe the car may have started as a column shift, but are the former owner (bought from a dealer so don't have the history) likely changed it to a 4 speed auto on the floor a few years back, but just with a boot. I like my coffee so need to get some cup holders, anyone tried one of those aftermarket hump consoles? They run about $150 and look well made and comes in many colors.
I have not used or seen one like that, but based on my right arm placement driving a four speed for many years, I'd think it would be too tall and your elbow would be banging into it all the time. Just a thought. The original consoles are low the entire length. So there is room for your arm and elbow. Maybe try mocking something up with a box or something first to check clearance.
I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not sure. I feel like I am diagonally parked in a parallel universe. 1968 400 convertible (Scarlet) 1976 T/A - 455 LE (No Burt) 1976 T/A New baby, starting full restoration. 1968 350 - 4 speed 'vert - 400 clone (the Beast!) 1968 350 convertible - Wife's car now- 400 clone (Aleutian Blue) (Blue Angel) 2008 Durango - DD 2008 GXP - New one from NH is AWESOME! 2017 Durango Citadel - Modern is nice! HEMI is amazing! 1998 Silverado Z71 - Father-daughter project 1968 400 coupe - R/A clone (Blue Pearl) (sold) 1967 326 convertible - Sold 1980 T/A SE Bandit - Sold
I have not used or seen one like that, but based on my right arm placement driving a four speed for many years, I'd think it would be too tall and your elbow would be banging into it all the time. Just a thought. The original consoles are low the entire length. So there is room for your arm and elbow. Maybe try mocking something up with a box or something first to check clearance.
Good idea, I'll hold off ordering till the car arrives in a week or two. Did all non-column shift 69 Firebirds come with that long flat console?
Good idea, I'll hold off ordering till the car arrives in a week or two. Did all non-column shift 69 Firebirds come with that long flat console?
No, consoles were an option. You could get s 4 speed or auto on the floor with no console. If you want an original console, '68 - '69 are the same and easy to add to your car. But 4 speed consoles are not real easy to come by. And it still would not give you a place to put your coffee cup!
I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not sure. I feel like I am diagonally parked in a parallel universe. 1968 400 convertible (Scarlet) 1976 T/A - 455 LE (No Burt) 1976 T/A New baby, starting full restoration. 1968 350 - 4 speed 'vert - 400 clone (the Beast!) 1968 350 convertible - Wife's car now- 400 clone (Aleutian Blue) (Blue Angel) 2008 Durango - DD 2008 GXP - New one from NH is AWESOME! 2017 Durango Citadel - Modern is nice! HEMI is amazing! 1998 Silverado Z71 - Father-daughter project 1968 400 coupe - R/A clone (Blue Pearl) (sold) 1967 326 convertible - Sold 1980 T/A SE Bandit - Sold
I used to have a set of those back in the '80's. Quit using them after they fell off my doors a couple of times making a huge mess!
I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not sure. I feel like I am diagonally parked in a parallel universe. 1968 400 convertible (Scarlet) 1976 T/A - 455 LE (No Burt) 1976 T/A New baby, starting full restoration. 1968 350 - 4 speed 'vert - 400 clone (the Beast!) 1968 350 convertible - Wife's car now- 400 clone (Aleutian Blue) (Blue Angel) 2008 Durango - DD 2008 GXP - New one from NH is AWESOME! 2017 Durango Citadel - Modern is nice! HEMI is amazing! 1998 Silverado Z71 - Father-daughter project 1968 400 coupe - R/A clone (Blue Pearl) (sold) 1967 326 convertible - Sold 1980 T/A SE Bandit - Sold
I took a piece of 1/16 sheet metal and cut it to fit the front part of the console. I used the large Phillips screw to hold the plate to the bottom, same screw that holds the console. Then I cut a foam can cuzie and mounted to the plate. It holds cans, cups, etc. after you close the console can’t tell it’s there.
I don't know why on earth anyone would even think about taking a cup of coffee into a 50+ year old Pontiac. Honda, Toyota or Audi maybe. I know! Each to his own, but that's just wrong.
I don't know why on earth anyone would even think about taking a cup of coffee into a 50+ year old Pontiac. Honda, Toyota or Audi maybe. I know! Each to his own, but that's just wrong.
lol, yeah I hear ya, but I'm hoping this will be my daily drive for 8 months out of a year to work. Driving work without coffee also seems wrong as well...
If I owned a trailer princess, I would tend to agree with you. But it is kind of nice to cruise the Blue Ridge Parkway with a hot cup of Java in a thermo mug.
This might put you over the edge, but I recently installed a folddown rear seat, and have used it to haul a few bags of media blast for my sandblaster. My feeling, that's what vacuums are for.
Talking about hauling stuff around...it would be the first time I hauled my track tires in the back on my fold down seat. I had to cram them in there but they went. The jack and tools to change them out in the trunk. In the end you decide how you want to use your car. It's just a car...vinal and steel. I personally don't think twice about a hot cup of coffee with me almost every time I'm in the car. Half the time I end up spilling it but that's just life without cup holders for me.
Strange how some decades-old memories remain vivid. Like having my morning coffee in one of those plastic door clip-on cup holders and being hit broadside by a run-away school bus wheel. (Not the Firebird).
I suppose I'm just old fashion, or just old. I got my drivers license 55 years ago, same year I got my first job. Back then we always had our coffee with breakfast before we left for work, didn't need cup holders. Took a vacuum flask of coffee for the 10 min. coffee break at 10 am and 2:30 pm, if one put waxed paper around the cork it didn't leak. I've never owned a vehicle that had cup holders and never saw the need, a good rifle rack above the back of the seat in the pick up was mandatory though. Funny, I've never owned a cell phone either and don't really see the need to be on one 24 hours a day, or a GPS, still determine how to get from point A to point B before leaving home. Someone on this site called me ancient once since I still use a slide rule, may be right.
Jim, if the runaway school bus wheel demised the cup holder and not you, I think we can agree the most important item in the car was spared.
Hauled a set of Hartzell propellers off a twin engine Piper Apache by sliding them through the trunk and resting them between the front buckets. No folding back seat just took it out.
Ah ok so it's not hauling [censored] around in the bird that you're opposed to but you just draw the line at a cup of coffee. Now I get it ( not really). Lol. Sorry. Couldn't help it.😉
Well there are limits to everything. If you have to get a set of propellers from Saskatchewan to Kelowna BC for inspection and rebuild, and all you have is a Firebird then you do what you have to. But drinking coffee while your doing it, that is over the line.
Makes perfect sense to me. But then again, maybe I'm getting senile in my old age.
Strange how some decades-old memories remain vivid. Like having my morning coffee in one of those plastic door clip-on cup holders and being hit broadside by a run-away school bus wheel. (Not the Firebird).
The good old days. Sigh... Had them for each window on my 68FB for drive in, but had cans and bottles of beer in them. Cooler full in ice on back seat. Was age 15 to 20 some years old. Lot of buddies did same. Never drank to hard till we all back to someone's home for the night. Sometimes fall asleep in our cars lol.
So is it wrong to put a 9" screen on the dash, lol? First old car since high school and feels odd to only have the two Dakota gauges to look at on the dash...
You should be looking at the beautiful scenery whizzing by outside the car. That and all the people waving and giving thumbs up!
I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not sure. I feel like I am diagonally parked in a parallel universe. 1968 400 convertible (Scarlet) 1976 T/A - 455 LE (No Burt) 1976 T/A New baby, starting full restoration. 1968 350 - 4 speed 'vert - 400 clone (the Beast!) 1968 350 convertible - Wife's car now- 400 clone (Aleutian Blue) (Blue Angel) 2008 Durango - DD 2008 GXP - New one from NH is AWESOME! 2017 Durango Citadel - Modern is nice! HEMI is amazing! 1998 Silverado Z71 - Father-daughter project 1968 400 coupe - R/A clone (Blue Pearl) (sold) 1967 326 convertible - Sold 1980 T/A SE Bandit - Sold