In another of my attempts to save a buck, and just see if I could do it, I decided the jockey box needed a overhaul. It's been broken since I bought the '71 in 1973, and although my wife claims she never sat on it, I'm pretty sure she might have been the guilty one. The lid has been very fragile, and felt like it was in a lot of pieces.
I removed the hinge screws and then the inside cover. After that I carefully peeled the outside rubber cover off. When the cover came off I found the plastic lid was in numerous pieces, and a few were missing. Fortunately none of them were critical to the function. Looked like the only thing holding it all together was the rubber cover, and the inside panel.
I had some old sheetmetal, so I bent it to the contour of the broken lid with some duckbill vise grips. Once I had it fitted I put epoxy all over the sheetmetal and laid it over the broken plastic top. I then drilled 1/8" holes all around the various cracks and fitted the loose pieces in their places.
Next I took out the pop rivets and pop rivetted all the holes so the plastic and metal were one piece. After that I coated the edges of the cover and top with contact cement and when it was almost dried I installed the rubber cover over the top and clamped it with the duckbills.
After it set for awhile I reinstalled the inside panel and then reinstalled in on the console. Looks just like new again, and it's stronger than new! I thnk someone could actually sit on it now and it might bend, but it wont break.

Cover apart and shetmetal bent to fit:


Sheetmetal attached and rivetted to the plastic top:


Rubber cover reinstalled over repaired panel:


Clamped while it dries:


All done and back on the Camaro:

 

wow, nice job man. looks great. heck back in the day all the girls used to set on them. lol

 

Yea, I remember my wife and her girlfriend both being in the front seat, and I'm sure her girlfriend wasn't sitting next to me on the console. My wife wouldn't have ever let THAT happen!