home built dash

[guy with a wrench]

this is a pic of the dash I made too, its kinda different, made from the door skin of a late 80s pickup, still kind of rough havent taken the time to finish it up yet but I think its pretty cool.

[tragic59]

Why not describe the process of turning a door into a dash for us??? Did you just pull the skin off and put it in a roller???

[guy with a wrench]

sorry, really didnt think of describing the process. I got the door from a body shop -freebie. measured and cut out a portion that already had a slight radius. Then I slowly rolled the metal by hand, just bending it and rolling it on a table no machine work at all. I test fit it alot and just kept making small adjustments when it was close I cut a couple of small paterns for the edges and then cut metal plates to fit, tack welded em, sanded and a lil glazing compound, lil primer and voila. I primered it like the rest of the body and used sheetmetal screws to attach it and mark it temporarily, still needs a lil tweaking but its close to the look I want, will just be 3 gauges in the center, might scrape the money to have it pinstriped, thats about it. Hope I didnt drag out the process description too much it was simple just time consuming heres a side pic also

[tragic59]

Looks pretty smooth for rolling it by hand. The sheet metal screws kinda take away from it, though. What's your long term plan for attaching it to the car???

[guy with a wrench]

Yeah the screws look like crap, I plan to rivet it in place along the top smooth the surface and fill the holes, and when I'm ready to add my wood to the body I plan to fiberglass it in place along the underneath sides, I left tabs for this purpose, I can glass it in, add some screws in case it seperates, and it will be covered by the upholstery