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I decided to try to make a new glovebox. My 400 needs one and I think a color-matching one would be interesting. This is what I was able to do, though I am fighting a lot of tolerance stackup from tracing an unfolded original glovebox. But this was meant only as a practice run anyway.

Held together with speed nuts and pop rivets. Just trying different things and seeing the difficulty. Speed nuts are a lot easier.

If I ever sell these it will probably be an "assemble yourself" situation. But that is not very soon.

Any ideas for where to get some proper cardboard stock? I have thought about using particleboard, but it can't be folded without breaking, essentially.

First picture is the original.

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Someone is/was already making these but apparently not the shallower one used in factory A/C cars. As the plan is to install that into my 1956, Clipper, I could use one.

Suggetion on glove box liner make the depth a little less than OEM will be a lot easier to install and remove if the need should arise. If need to work on radio or wiper cables the glove stock box is a a pain. Just my opinion

Thanks guys, yup the length is easily customizable.

Don do you have a dimension for the depth of the factory A/C one?

No, I didn’t know they were different until you or maybe someone else here mentioned it recently.