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I've been wanting to add something like the pony corral, but
can't see spending the dough to get it. And I love the Roush trunk mounted
tool box, but it's up there in $$ too. So I decided to do something similar
to the two of them. I made my own version which I will attempt to document
Started out by tracing the interior surface of the trunk with
some butcher paper and transferred the shape that I liked onto some poster
board and cut it out. Layed the poster board on hardboard ($5 Home Depot) and
cut my shape out (had to cut a notch for the brakelight wires that come off
the lower right edge of the trunk. (You can see where I traced the trunk
bracing on the right side of the posterboard cutout. Fold in half and you
will have the opposite side as well. This is how I determined where to drill
my matching hole.)
Temporarily mounted to trunk by removing clips for brake wiring and drilled a
matching 1/4" hole on the left brace of the trunk. Used plastic push
pins from local auto supply to secure. Trimmed a few spots after this that
were rubbing and smoothed the shape a bit.
Now to the indoor work...
Picked up a small tool box from Sears(about $6) and drilled two 1/2"
holes in the lid where it will eventually mount to the trunk lid panel.
Top view:
Opened:
Now, from the picture above, I closed the bottom of the box, so that it is
now upside down, and attached a GT logo to the bottom of the toolbox, so that
it will be right-side up when I attach this to the trunk panel.
Heres the hardware I'll use to attach the box to the panel. 6 Large 1/4"
washers, 2 1/4" x 1" bolts, 2 1/4" lock washers, 2 1/4"
nuts, and 2 1/4" wingnuts.
Went to the local car audio shop and bought some speaker box carpet (almost
identical to charcoal trunk carpeting) for $5. Used spray adhesive to stick
the carpet to the hardboard, and wrapped the board, using hot glue to secure
the edges. This is the back side, and the four holes you are 1/4". The outer
holes will attach the panel to the trunk, and the inner holes will mount the
tool box.
Front view:
From the back side, stick the bolt through a washer and mount through the
panel for both inner holes.
Closer view:
On the front side, place a washer, lock washer, and nut on each bolt and
tighten.
Closer view:
Toollbox holes match up to the bolts coming through.
Place a washer, and secure each bolt with a wingnut.
Close up the box and you're ready to attach to the trunk!
From here, you match up the holes in the panel to the holes in the trunk
bracing and push in the plastic retainer clips to secure.
I think it finishes off the trunk really well, and I can remove the tool box
by loosening the wingnuts if I need to use it.
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