I wanted to do some videography from my car--but no matter how I strapped the tripod into the passenger's seat, it kept falling over when I went around corners. (I don't know why; the Corvette just insists on going around corners fast.)
So I looked for a hard point on which to mount a camera mount--and I found one. This is the passenger side latch point for the roof panel. It's made of steel or aluminum, and it is bolted to the body.
There's a 0.17" diameter hole that goes all the way through. The latch point is variable width and height, maximum .631". So I machined a piece of Delrin with a 15 degree angle at the front, and a .631" slot through it. Then I dropped an 8-32 screw through the Delrin, through the hole in the latch, and back through the Delrin. A nut holds the 8-32 screw very securely.
You can see a silver circle on top; that's a 1/4"-20 thumbscrew that comes up from the underside, and screws into the camera's tripod hole. It is very secure, even when going down the old highway.
I don't have any video to show you right now--because of this cause of haze and air pollution, a few miles from us:
I photographed this a few nights ago as darkness set in, so it's not much of a picture.
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