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Create Awesome Interiors with Fiberglass

June 19, 2012 By Naseem Muaddi

Fabricating interior panels from fiberglass is a skill that auto trimmers often overlook or underutilize. The benefits, however, should not be ignored – as working with this medium allows you to create shapes and structures that cannot be easily done with wood and panel board alone.

Jimmy Davis of Vision Audio in Midland, Texas recently showed the readers of Truckin magazine just how useful this skill could be by creating a custom Corvette-themed interior for a 1985 Chevy C10 pickup.

The project – which includes a complete dashboard and waterfall-style center console – goes a long way in demonstrating the practical applications and artistic merits of fiberglass.

Check out Jimmy’s step-by-step pictorial in Truckin magazine.

Filed Under: Archive, How-to Tagged With: 1985 Chevrolet C10 Pickup, Auto Trim, Auto Upholstery, Car Interior, Chevrolet Corvette, Vision Audio

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  1. tinabanana says

    June 19, 2012 at 10:45 pm

    This was another great how to, thx for posting the link. The seats is Exactly what im planning on doing for my truck, cept i will upholster mine. We will also do a dash similar to that. I never have time to around for stuff like that, so when you take the time to look around and post cool stuff you found, it really helps alot of ppl , espesially me !

    • Calvin says

      January 12, 2021 at 2:22 am

      Hello,I really am impressed by that .Could you point me in the right direction to finding someone to do my Infiniti j30t

  2. Naseem Muaddi says

    June 20, 2012 at 12:35 am

    Thanks Tina, I’m glad you enjoyed it!

  3. BIG DADDY NADS says

    June 20, 2012 at 6:30 am

    It seems like all the great interior fiberglass pros, are more into the automotive-multimedia industry rather than auto-upholstery industry. Do you agree? And if so, why do you think this is the case?

    • Naseem Muaddi says

      June 28, 2012 at 11:47 pm

      I totally agree. Fiberglass work is very commonly used in the automotive multimedia industry for speaker pods and enclosures. Fiberglass techniques are even taught in their training programs.

  4. poppy79424 says

    January 3, 2013 at 12:33 pm

    THey brought me that truck and a pair of suburban buckets. We cut the lean backs down and repaded the whole seat.
    One thing I like about Jason Hill is he always knows exactly what he wants. He had a design in mind and we created it for him on the seats. Jason’s motto is “Less is more”

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