Something to share or an inside job

[jlaird]

I think in the last several weeks I have read everything there is to read about Bugeyes on the web and I have not seen this trick.

Once upon a time, way back when, I decided that when my Bugeye top was up that big gapeing hole behind the seats was not only unsightly but allowed anyone to see what I had stashed back there.

Soooo... I took a few peices of card board and my trusty knife and built a pattern (smallish peices taped together) and adjusted it to fit so that it rested on the top against the bolts for the top where they stuck through the rear deck and on the bottom made it fit just before the final bit of the curve of the hump.

Useing the pattern, cut a peice of 1/4 inch plywood just the right size and after checking it for fit covered the face with matching floor carpeting. Vola, you would not beleive what this did for the noise level as well. Guess where I had a couple of speakers also. Total project cost, nothing, and boy oh boy we had nothing at the time.

I had a trunk in a Bugeye, remember this was the only car we had so the wife used it for shopping and we both raced it as well. Our young son sat between the seats on a pillow. Not far you can go in Hawaii. Seat belts were not around at the time or child restant seats.

Enjoy

Jack

Edited to change 1/2 to 1/4 inch

 

[Morris]

Oh man, that sounds like some kind of fantasy life. Living in Hawaii, driving a Bugeye, and racing with the family. I am very envious of you, sir.

Morris

 

[bugimike]

I did the same with with my bugeye using a 3/8" piece of "Sintra",a PVC sign product, backed with a piece of 1/4" plywood for additional rigidity. As you say, sound level now great and a great place to mount some speakers. I also used a locking glove-box latch (out of a Simca of all things!) that catches that little belt loop for the spare hold-down belt, and I now have a locking trunk!