I'm just fishing for ideas. Anyone made/used/seen a good approach to adding cup holders to a bucket car with console? '72 in this case. We'll likely end up grafting something onto the console out of fiberglass but I'm hoping for some inspiration. The main problem is I like the original console - being small - as opposed to the gigantic modern consoles and the typical custom jobs. Of course small means no cup holders, so it is a challenge.

 

i dont have any great ideas but i was gonna post a pic of a hot female holding a cup and say i have one like this...but then i lost interest in the project...then i decided to google custom cup holders and saw this one and thought you could make a custom console cover w cup holders in it like this




another cool one is

 

 

I've been hoping to see somebody who's converted a factory 4-speed console opening into a cup holder space - have been thinking about that myself, as I have a column-shift '72 to which I added buckets and factory console in place of the original bench and had one of the repro vendors make a solid console top plate for it (without the auto shifter cutout).Looks completely factory except for not having a floor shifter sticking up from it.

you can buy the 4-speed conversion part to change an auto console into a 4-speed unit, albeit not cheap at about $160 or so...

 

 

nifty! Is that a factory piece out of some other vehicle or home grown?