Center console with switch panel

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I used to live their. Got to Gatlinberg on the week-end to party. Back in 81. As you drive through Gatlinberg--on the right was the WORLD GLOBE. Lived on top of the hill behind it. Cut tobacco on the left across the interstate--as you head toward Seiverville. Had a Viet Nam buddy that got me down their. He was a cat bird.Alot of fun we had together. Enjoy your self. Did you travel i-64?
 

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I used to live their. Got to Gatlinberg on the week-end to party. Back in 81. As you drive through Gatlinberg--on the right was the WORLD GLOBE. Lived on top of the hill behind it. Cut tobacco on the left across the interstate--as you head toward Seiverville. Had a Viet Nam buddy that got me down their. He was a cat bird.Alot of fun we had together. Enjoy your self. Did you travel i-64?
Enjoy yourself and be careful
 
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I built a lot of cell towers out here in the 90's.
My dad lives down here, he designs and builds cabins. As you can imagine, it's a very lucrative business down here.
 

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I built a lot of cell towers out here in the 90's.
My dad lives down here, he designs and builds cabins. As you can imagine, it's a very lucrative business down here.
I went back to Kodak about 4 years ago and visited my friends mom. My friend passed away and his mom was in bad shape and she passed away on the day I went into the army,. She was a great lady.
 

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I have been thinking about getting one of those overhead pieces and putting in in,but they said one out of a pick-up won,t work in a bronco. I don,t know why.They look the same. Anyone tried it?
 

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I built a lot of cell towers out here in the 90's.
My dad lives down here, he designs and builds cabins. As you can imagine, it's a very lucrative business down here.
We worked for A-1 east end fence company out of Knoxville. I was their mechanic and my friend was a saleman. The guy was retired navy . Later on my friend told me.The step son got on some bad drugs and killed them and hi s self. They were all nice people. Damn drugs has ruint alot of good people
 

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We worked for A-1 east end fence company out of Knoxville. I was their mechanic and my friend was a saleman. The guy was retired navy . Later on my friend told me.The step son got on some bad drugs and killed them and hi s self. They were all nice people. Damn drugs has ruint alot of good people
We also helped his dad on the farm. They were all good to me.
 
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We worked for A-1 east end fence company out of Knoxville. I was their mechanic and my friend was a saleman. The guy was retired navy . Later on my friend told me.The step son got on some bad drugs and killed them and hi s self. They were all nice people. Damn drugs has ruint alot of good people
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I have been thinking about getting one of those overhead pieces and putting in in,but they said one out of a pick-up won,t work in a bronco. I don,t know why.They look the same. Anyone tried it?
Overhead pieces? Like a KC hilight bar?
 

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Do you know their is a difference between the pick up and bronco hood? Their is and if you look under the hoods on bother--on the backside(inside) the bronco their is a small piece hanging down and it fits into a piece on the firewall of the bronco. The pick up doesn,t have it. I have a picture of the bronco and will get one of the pick-you hood on my other bronco(it was replace.)
 

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Hear is a BRONCO HOOD--see the piece. The PICK-UP does not have it.
 

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Do you know their is a difference between the pick up and bronco hood? Their is and if you look under the hoods on bother--on the backside(inside) the bronco their is a small piece hanging down and it fits into a piece on the firewall of the bronco. The pick up doesn,t have it. I have a picture of the bronco and will get one of the pick-you hood on my other bronco(it was replace.)
That's crazy.
They have to be the same size though, so you could make it work either way I'd imagine.
 

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Do you know their is a difference between the pick up and bronco hood? Their is and if you look under the hoods on bother--on the backside(inside) the bronco their is a small piece hanging down and it fits into a piece on the firewall of the bronco. The pick up doesn,t have it. I have a picture of the bronco and will get one of the pick-you hood on my other bronco(it was replace.)
I,ll have to wait for my niece to get in this evening to get a picture of the other hood
 

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That's crazy.
They have to be the same size though, so you could make it work either way I'd imagine.
They were $125 awhile back and now they are asking $275. I,ll pass and look around . I gave $166 for a piece of chrome plastic that goes aroung the glove book at Jeff,s-then a couple of days later I saw the same thing at Mac,s for $100. So I learnt a lesson their.
 

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So, I always wanted to do something like this, so I gave it a go this summer. Worked on it here and there and I still have some trim I want to put on it, but it’s far enough along for me to share it here.

It has a switch panel in it that is fed by a second 'house' battery. I ran 4awg wires from the "+" and "-" to DC power and ground blocks that are mounted in the belly of the console. The switch panel is wired to those blocks and it runs front and rear off road lights, a seperate volt meter and an auxiliary electric fuel pump.
The winch is wired directly to the 2nd battery through a shutoff switch.
There is also an inline shutoff switch between the battery and the switch panel.
I really love having cupholders right there and the inverter.
I figured others might like this for their rigs. That space is wasted without it, there's not much else you can do with that space.

Thoughts?
Came out badass
 

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