Art & Inspiration The Mother Of all Dash/Gauge Threads!!!

Stashed this one for a future project. Has a rotary speedo - krazy !!

1929 Chysler Imperial.

Rat

 

I agree! It's either this blue or gold-leaning toward the blue cause my wife loves it too!!

 

I picked this up a couple of years ago. '29 Hupmobile. I'm trying to fit it into a '32 Chevy dash. I was going to cut round holes in the back to mount gauges but that would lose the character of the cutouts.

 

1954 Ford - Centered w/sw gauges in my 1953 Chevy.

 

winner

 

What is that white box hanging under the dash with all the buttons?

 

When the time comes, I plan on installing this into my Deuce Coupe. It's out of a 55 Oldsmobile. I'd be keen to see pictures of anyone that has done this already.

Cool Thread.

 

This is my first attempt at a custom dash.
It's all metal and will house a GPS.
More photos of the dash on my photobucket.
Check it out:
http://s275.photobucket.com/home/rhondayou/recentuploads?page=1

 

37 Nash...On the road to LAR



In bare metal...



Nash uniscopes...


Bare metal in 25 Dodge roadster pickup. Center part is 60's vw hood, outsides are 18 gauge made in English wheel.

 

Duesenberg in blue plus 28 Hispano Suiza. Both with lots of instruments.

 

Nice work! Post some pics of your truck build

 

33/34 Lincoln.......

 

Thanks Spuds.
Return to the site I posted and you'll see about 5 additional pages of pictures of the truck build you are asking about.
http://s275.photobucket.com/home/rhondayou/recentuploads?page=1

Thanks

 

Wow! I love it!

 

Putting a 49'ish Dodge truck cab on a 95 Dodge Dakota chassis, but don't have a ton of extra cash to buy a lot of new stuff. I have to make as much as possible from the Dakota fit the 49.

A friend of mine works for a local shop that has an awesome machine shop. He took my Dakota gauges and made Bakelite rings so that they'd fit like a glove inside of the 49's dash holes. The tach is going on the driver's side and the speedo is going on the passenger's side since it has that weird "center of the truck" instrument panel. The great thing is that the stock circuit board will be retained so that I can use the factory dash wiring harness from the Dakota. The new ribbon cable in the photo is an "extension cord" for the pins that formerly pressed into the backs of the gauges when they were mounted on the hard plastic carrier. Since I put the "two over two" Dakota gauges into the "four wide" panel in the center of the dash, wiring them up is a cinch! I'll post a better photo of the 4 gauge assembly later!

 

Narrowed 36 Ford dash, Stewart ensign panel in my 33 Plymouth.

(Still a work in progress as you can tell!)

 

heres my old 34 with a 61 Galaxy and my current 34 getting a 57 Chevy dash

 

39 merc in a model A tudor

 

Exellent work guys , I juust finished mine ,very simple compared to yours . I'll figure how to post some pics yet.

 

Here is the dash I casted up for my 32, it fit over the stock dash.

CB

 

Crafty, very cool. Where did you come up with that Idea?

Here is my Pierce Arrow Dash courtesy of Alchemy. Right now filled with SW black face gauges but soon to be filled with the SW Twin Blue gauges. Just need to find the elusive speedometer.



Fryguy

 

I have '54 pontiac dash in my '30 roadster. I do not know how to post pic but can e-mail a pic for someone to post. A few guys here in Apopka area who are on HAMB saw it this wk.end @ a show.

 

ford motorsport gold trimed gauges in the 32 with a panel added below for switches. I need to cover the insert as the sun over your shoulder is hard on the eyes.

 

Excellent thread, Ive been working on trying to source the pieces I need for my dash. I found a 20's chrysler panel (rotary speedo, engine temp, oil press, and fuel level) missing the ampmeter but I should be able to source one to fill the hole. This thread has given me some wonderful ideas to replace the rusty chrysler (im trying to create something new) front panel with a polished aluminum. As its all behind flat glass the idea of painting the back of the glass is wonderful, although I may go with etching instead. The fuel level is unique, I dont think Ive ever seen anything like it, it seems to be a brass diaphram coupled to a pressure fitting. Its nothing like a pressure gauge, more like a vaccum advance that moves a lever. The speedo is fronzen but the numbers, and dials (odometer) are perfect. The potmetal tried to explode.

 

I can finally add to this great thread. This is the slightly modified dash in my '34. It is an old SW panel with a mix of old and new gauges.




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This thread rules!!! Wish there were more early 60's dash and gauges!
Looking for ideas for the cadillac i'm doing!!

This cast is awesome !!! Very cool and creative man!!

LOTS OF COOL STUFF ON THIS THREAD!!

 

Mines in progress now, but the 34 Dash will be filled with Stewart Warner "Twin-Blue" Gauges.

 

40 Mercury I was going to use in a '36 Roadster.

 

I'm glad this one is still going... I had construction shots of this early on but here is an update

 

Something different in my 57 chevy truck.