Original Glove Box

[GWL]

Nick,

Great job on that glove box and thanks for the update and pictures.

I really haven't been working much on my car since I visited your shop last summer. But I have been studying and thinking about that glove box.

Other stuff in life has been getting in the way. Getting our house ready to sell in the spring???. Have bought a small cottage, built in 1908, and I'm in the middle of leveling the first floor........replacing a wall and more. It is balloon framed.

When I get back to my car build in a couple of weeks and get to the glove box I will document how I put it together. Visiting Nicks shop last summer really gave me some good ideas. He is a great guy willing to share ideas and thoughts about Cobras.

Still haven't put my hands on a real glove box to see how it is put together yet.

Jon,

Thanks for the details. I'll read them over again and right now I'm going to try to find your pictures. I am leaning toward the larger 289 glove box but may make it smaller because I'll have a 427 street gauge layout.

Thanks guys, George

Edit: Jon, found your pictures. I just clicked on the camera below your name on the post above mine.

[Rick Parker]

And then you have to ask yourself, now really how important is an authentic lock mechanism.....you know, do I REALLY have to have one. Well do ya?

Austin Healey 3000 Aston Martin DB4 DB5 AC Aceca Metropolitan glove box lock** | eBay

[GWL]

Originally Posted by Rick Parker

And then you have to ask yourself, now really how important is an authentic lock mechanism.....you know, do I REALLY have to have one. Well do ya?

Rick,

Not at that price. $389.95. But others here might be. I'm sure someone restoring an original would not hesitate though. If stuff like that sells for that price parting out an old Austin-Healey can be quite lucrative. I have checked Moss Motors and others but it is no longer available, as has been mentioned.

I'm not as concerned about the lock as I am the general look of the glove box itself. I'll come up with something similar.

Thanks for the input, George

[jon@harrison.ne]

That latch was about $200 when I built my car so for about $10 in materials plus chroming I had one that was very close.