64 Impala

Just a bit of background about the custom install in the 64 Impala that I did about a year ago at the Monaca store. The car had already gotten it’s retro hopper custom paint before I did the install. I followed that direction on the interior with the twist of the hip-hop style using the Louis Vuitton material that the customer chose.


This is the mold made from the mock for the speaker pods. Even though there were only two castings that would ever be made, a fiberglass mold is necessary because the pod needs to made out of one type of material so that the stress of temperature changes over time won’t cause cracks in the paint. Also being made out of fiberglass makes them very light.




The castings seen here were reinforced by adding MDF rings and a frame that was fiberglassed in making the pod rigid.

I molded the Memphis grills into the piece….

And added the final touch of the retro Impala emblems that I carved, molded, and cast. Back in the day, the little star projections on the sides were typical design elements used to show the coming of the "space age".

More on this install later...

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