More Nomad interior progress.

[chevynut]

I've been working on my Nomad interior when I have time. A while ago I built the rear seat structure, and then some armrests out of aluminum.
I have an interior guy who's been working on my door panels and I'm doing most all of the construction. He's going to do all the leather stitching and cover everything, and install the headliner and carpeting.

Since the tubs protrude into the rear seat area, I had to make provisions to attach the leather to the seat back, while leaving a space between the seat back cushion and the tub. I have seen this done using fiberglass, but I had a brainstorm and decided to use a piece of another identical tub.

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I cut the front of the tubs out of the 56 4-door sedan I have.

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Then I cleaned them up and trimmed them a little so they would fit over the tubs in my Nomad.

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Next, I attached some 1/2" spacer blocks to the backside of the piece, so they would space the tub section away from my Nomad tubs, to allow for some foam and leather.

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I found that I needed to add some width to them, since my tubs are 4" wider than stock and the armrests are only about 2 1/4" wide at the top.

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So I welded some metal to the edges
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I forgot to get pics of the finished welds.
Then I had to trim the plywood seat backs so they would fit the new metal pieces.

I had to attach the metal to the plywood somehow, so I made some attachment flanges and screwed them to the plywood seat backs, laying some tabs over the tub section.

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I checked the fit of everything, then marked the location of the attachment flange.

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Finally, I spot-welded the attachment flange tabs to the tub section. Then I trimmed the excess metal from the backside.

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This is how it all looks when finished. My interior guy will trim the wood and metal to get the exact gaps that he wants everywhere. They will be covered with foam and leather on front, and the back will be covered in leather. The side bolsters will hide the tubs so you won't see them at all. None of the steel or plywood will show and the seat bottoms and backs will be removable. I plan to paint the pieces before they're covered.

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[carls 56 (RIP 11/24/2021)]

nice progress, will be looking forward to more. .............. what you do after lunch?

[chevynut]

Thanks Carl, I did all of this after lunch.

[567chevys]

Looks Nice are you going to try to make kits to sell ? what did you do after dinner

[chevynut]

Sid, no kits for this. I worked through dinner.

[Run-em]

Laszlo, you amaze us all!

[567chevys]

Looks very Nice ,

Old car with new style only way to go !!

[smooth 56]

Lot of work there but you'r retired rite lol. Look's really good Chevy,glad you got some time to work on the 56.

[NickP]

Interesting design, economical for certain and a quick build too! But, honestly Laszlo, I think they may be a bit uncomfortable, just sayin............................................. ...................................

[chevynut]

Nick, they shouldn't be uncomfortable. The seat back foam will be about 4" thick in the back, and the bolsters will make it 5-6" thick. These tub sections are only about 3" front to back. And they are only on the sides of the seat back. I can sit in them now with some cushions over them and they're not uncomfortable. There's not much else I can do with my tubs and I have already moved my rear seat forward a couple of inches to minimize the tub interference. It's further forward than a sedan rear seat, but not as far forward as a HT rear seat. How else would you deal with this?

I don't plan to have many back-seat passengers anyhow. Interiors By Shannon did a similar thing on a Nomad he did and I think it turned out awesome. He even has the seat further back than mine and the tubs seems to protrude into the seat area as much or more.

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