broken ashtray--places for coins

[mr.utility at highstream.net (David Utley)]

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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