dash pad help ideas needed.

[lostparts]

i have a 69 rambler that is in deprit need of a dashboard regrove. the car spent most of its life in hawaii, so you can guess how cracked up it is.
my problem is. i can't find some one how has a reprouction dashpad. and the dashpad is glued down to the dash pan so i'm afraid i will destroy it so bad getting it off, that i won't be able to salvage it to recover and install.

[Hellbound_Hootch]

mooneyes offers dash covers in a shitload of colors for any cat i think for under 40 bux if i remember correctly,,,

MISS hootch

[Jester]

have you tried yearone.com

[RileyRacing]

Just Dashes. They can do anything, they claim... not cheep tho...

Jay

[spudshaft]

My dad had just dashes re-do a Challenger pad - excellent work, but I think it was a little expensive.

[DrJ]

If it spent most of it's life in Hawaii is there any metal left under the dash pad?
Every older Hawaii car I've seen was rusted away from the inside out. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

On the dash... consider replacing it yourself?
If it justs follows the metal, make a "muslin" pattern and sew up a replacement and glue it on after stripping the old one.
If it's got a foam "body" to it you might want to duct tape, saran wrap, whatever it takes to seal the cracks long enough to pull a quick plaster mold off it and blow a replacement foam with some two part urethane foam, either flexible or rigid. Then cover that.
Or CUSTOMIZE it! Strip off what's there and INVENT a new dash!