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From 1987 Ford Bronco “BondoBuggy”, documented by WizardPC.

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1987 Ford Bronco - Basics. Here you see some of the cardboard templates, scissors, a pen, and some silver solder (also known as a redneck contour gauge) 1987 Ford Bronco - Silver solder is ideal for a contour guage because it bends readily but will easily hold it's shape 1987 Ford Bronco - This is the console that we are replacing. 1987 Ford Bronco - Currently my "mini console" is wedged between the seats and sitting on top of the ebrake handle. This is obviously not ideal, but it has se… 1987 Ford Bronco - Here is the first piece I cut. I fiddled with cardboard cutouts for many hours before making this first cut, and as you can see it came out… 1987 Ford Bronco - Now, on to how we are going to make the back of the console match up to the contours of the dash. First, you take your silver solder... 1987 Ford Bronco - then you bend it into an L shape... 1987 Ford Bronco - Line up the short edge of the L with the bottom of the base piece... 1987 Ford Bronco - ...and push it to the rear. I only have 2 hands, so I couldnt take a picture while I was making the contour. Basically you hold the short e… 1987 Ford Bronco - Now you have a pretty darn good approximation of the contour you need to cut in the wood. 1987 Ford Bronco - So then we take the silver solder and lay it on a piece of cardboard and trace it. Here we have the entire passenger side forward panel alr… 1987 Ford Bronco - Looks pretty good, eh? 1987 Ford Bronco - Oh Noes!!! What's this? The transmission hump is not perfectly flat, so the base piece is not actually sitting flush with the floor. We can… 1987 Ford Bronco - Again, I only have the 2 hands, so use your imagination. What we have to do to correct the gap is this: using some method of your choosing… 1987 Ford Bronco - Now with both pieces on a semi-flat surface (like, say, the hood of your xj), line them up using the line you drew. Flip them over and draw… 1987 Ford Bronco - Now we have the original and the filler piece that will fit together to form the template for our side piece. 1987 Ford Bronco - Tape them together and lay them on your plywood. 1987 Ford Bronco - Trace the template cut it out! Now that you know how to do one panel, you can figure out how to do the rest. 1987 Ford Bronco - Mmmmm.....Cragars..... 1987 Ford Bronco - A white Jeep Cherokee is parked on a concrete driveway.