Strat_928

I enjoy this one a great deal... no changes to your interior, no screws velcro etc. and it works! The guy who makes them is here in Va and you can contact him if you like. He does not make a specific one for our model but the others he makes for BMW etc. fits our cars due to the fiber board on the console hump. It just stays under there and does not get in the sway of your leg and is easily removable. Made of brushed aluminum.... very nice.

http://www.ultimatecupholders.com

Randy V

Well look what the cat dragged in.

Fogey1

http://www.westmarine.com/webapp/wcs...3#.UvVyv_bHxGM

You want gimbals, I gotchur gimbals - for 16 bucks.

Sucks that vendors don't post measurements.

Randy V

I have something similar mounted at the helm station on my boat. Not really appropriate for the interior of a 928 in my opinion.

James Bailey

that is not what many 911 owners are likely to say......

pcar928fan

GREAT LOOKING INTERIOR!!! Love the red/black theme! AWESOME!

oldfrat

I’ve now fabricated 2 cup holder solutions that achieve my goal of being non-invasive and very tip resistant. Both involve the standard small cup holder baskets that have a flange that goes up, over, and slides down next to your window. Here's a picture.
Solution 1: Buy a standard cup holder, a tube of Household Goop (great for plastic to wood adhesion), and ask Home Depot to give you a paint stirring stick. Use tin snips to cut the top part of the cupholder in half. Measure the length from the inside of your window to a distance that will allow the cup holder’s basket to drop vertically and rest against you’re your door panel for support. (About 2-1/4”, but YMMV.) Cut a piece of the paint stirring stick that length and file/sandpaper the molding’s exposed edges to round them out. Goop the two cup holder pieces to the paint stick and clamp for 24 hours. Paint the wood to match your interior. (To visualize, all you are doing is extending the top of the plastic cup holder enough to fit the width of your door panel.)

Solution 2: Buy the seat wedge unit previously shown in this thread and 2 small cup holders. I worried that soda cans and water bottles might tip because the wedge’s cup indentations are wide and shallow. So I used a tin snip to cut off the basket of a small cup holder and super glued it into the front wedge indentation. I've left the wedge's rear indentation as is so it holds larger cups. The result looks great and gives me much more confidence about spills than the wedge alone.

BTW, for best adhesion, always scuff plastic contact points with fine sandpaper or steel wool before gluing.

Note: I've just edited this post after going through 3 iterations of solution #1.

Brad

dr bob

Pictures, Brad?

oldfrat

I'm inept at posting pictures and you'd probably want a shot of #1 in place, which I can't do now because my car is in Sean's shop. Maybe I can get Sean to post pictures when I pick up the car. Sorry but, meanwhile, you'll have to settle for a thousand words.

Brad

bronto

I would love to see photos too. I fabricated one from a Boxter cupholder into the cassette holder, but it's only 1 and leaves passengers out in the cold. Plus, it's rough; "proof of concept" quality. Some of you have noticed it at Sharktoberfest. Always looking for a better solution. Still have a "cup holder" search running on eBay to see what small and interesting contraptions they've come up with that could be adapted to a 928.

oldfrat

I will do my best to post pictures of my solutions as soon as I can. Meanwhile, as an aid to the visualization-impaired:

Buy one of item 1.

Buy 2 of item 2.

Scuff up the bottom of the cup indentations on item 1. Cut the basket part from item 2 and scuff up its bottom. Super glue the item 2 baskets into the cup indentations on item 1. Voila, a 928 holder of 2 cans or bottles!

Or, buy 1 or more of item 2, cut the top part of the flange in half and glue it to a flat piece of wood of the appropriate dimensions to fit the door panel of your car and the width of the holder's horizontal flange. All you are trying to do is to extend the length of the horizontal flange to the width of your door panel in a way that holds the basket securely and vertically.

Hint: It helps immensely to glue both parts of the holder to the same side of the wood.


Brad

oldfrat

Sean took pictures of both solutions today and plans to post them here.

Solution 2 is the easiest. Only takes 5 minutes and letting the super glue dry overnight.

I've done more iterations of Solution 1 and learned some things. If you use Household Goop (easier to work with than epoxy), you get plenty of bond strength without needing screws. That allows for thinner wood than my initial molding. I did my next pair with a cheap Home Depot yardstick. My next version will use an even thinner paint stirring stick.

Key thing is that both solutions work, look decent, are cheap and don't involve drilling any holes.

Brad

oldfrat

I just did iteration 3 of this. It is the best, so I edited my original post to reflect it. The big change was going from wood molding to extend the top of the plastic cup holder to using a Home Depot paint stirring stick. It requires no trimming of the width, has a less clunky profile, and has enough strength.

I've e-mailed the US distributor of these cup holders to see if they would be willing do do a custom run of cup holders that are deep enough to fit a 928. If they are, maybe we can convince Roger to do a group buy.

Brad

SMTCapeCod

How are the ones in the Pantera???

http://www.yachtingmagazine.com/frosty-beverage-anyone

oldfrat

I got no response from the vendor I had hoped to link up with Roger. Guess he didn't consider the potential sales volume enough to justify the cost of a mold change. Too bad as his current molds seem to be increasingly obsolete. Whatever you do, do not buy one of the adjustable cup hangers that seem to be the norm now. They just don't work.

Brad