broken ashtray--places for coins

[marc at getty.net (Marc Getty)]

I once left a full bottle of cyanoacrylate glue and the tool to remove
my wheel locks in the ashtray for a summer. I never thought about it
until I dropped the car off for an alignment and the mechanic could
not find the wheel lock. After a phone call I told him where it. Turns
out the glue leaked out, stuck the bottle, $2 in change, and the
ashtray door together. He had to break the ashtray to get it out. I
lost the $2+ in change in there too... :-(

-Marc




-----Original Message-----
From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
[mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org] On Behalf Of David Utley
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 11:03 AM
To: treed2@wsu.edu
Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: Re: broken ashtray--places for coins


Not to help you directly with your problem, but I picked up a coin
holder from 
a GM car...  THe sucker is prolly 6 inches tall, and I have been
trying to 
figure out how to install this into my car so that it is removable as
it is in 
the GM cars...  The GM cars have two round slots that slide up into
the 
holder...  Trouble is, those slots are molded into the center console
on the 
cars they came off of...  Anyone have any ideas how to make this work
in our 
cars?

TIA

David

Quoting treed2@wsu.edu:

> Over the years I've been thoughtlessly emptying my pockets of spare 
> change by dumping it the ashtray. Several pounds of coins
accumulated 
> in this way. Recently when I hit a speed bump particularly hard it 
> exploded, rather comically sending loose change everywhere! It was 
> kind of like a grenade; luckily no one was hurt. I just had to spend

> 20 minutes picking up quarters, nickels, dimes and pennies.
> 
> The door is partially broken off (one hinge is still hanging on) but
i 
> managed to pin it back together using a drill and a small nail.
> 
> >From now on I'm not putting any more change in there, but I need
some
> (clever?) ideas about what to do. I could spend $5 replacing the ash

> tray with a used one, or I could:
> 
> - install triple vdo gauges (too expensive at ~$50 a gauge plus 
> senders)
> - glue the door permanently shut so that the ashtray is only
'decorative'
> - rework the hinges to open the ashtray door gullwing-style
> - turn it in to a "detactable face" ashtray
> - install an in-dash aquarium in its place
> - build a miniature diorama complete with tiny plastic figurines
> - ???
> 
> I'm open for ideas, people.
> 
> -Toby
> 
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