Features Let's see the dash ~ work in progress or finished.

Kinda blurry but you get the idea?

 

I just couldn't bear to cut mine up so I replace the cardboard glove box with a tin one with room for a radio. I mounted the gauges in a separate panel under the original dash.

 

Not finished, but getting close.

 

Here’s mine out of a 36 Desoto Airstream

 

My GMC dash ready to go. Its been in the truck for a fitting but it's in the living room for now.

 

Here’s the current view out of my 53 chev

 

Older threads can be fun,pic's n storys are extra fun n timeless!
Some things are not seen right a way at first in details .
The last custom dash I worked on,was helping my son Lance,with his T-bucket.
The old used T body he got, n reused, had had a lot of holes chopped in too it, most in not the places he needed any holes .
After playing around with a number of drawings for ideas. I cut out a cardboard pattern for a wood flamed style dash.
He took about 3 weeks, looking around town to get the prefect peace of wood to make it with.
He was looking for a wood grain pattern that would match up as well as possible with both the flames an gages= With biggest MPH center gage to be in center of knothole grain.
Lance ,named his hot rod "Pandora",telling me cuz of the unknown probs that kept poping up,an we over came together !!

 

Fixed up.

 

Here's one I recently did for a 34 Dodge. Everything was missing except the dash sheet metal. Hammered the frame out of some stainless sheet. The backing for the gauges was some aluminum trim salvaged from a vintage Shasta travel trailer (my brother restores vintage campers next door). Not my favorite gauges but it's a customers car, he chose them.
Made up a matching glove box door and frame as well.

Recently finished this as well although it's probably too street roddy for here. Widened the stock 32 opening so I could fit the 5 gauges, built a new stainless molding for the bigger opening. Fabbed up a lower dash to hold the switches and the A/C bs.

 

Before

During

After

 

I’m a visual kinda guy.

 

Test fit in the car, no clear yet;

 

My 33 Chevy dash. Used some Black Walnut from a tree I had to cut down to build my garage. Did the layout in CAD to get it right.

 

Here is an update on mine. Scroll back a bunch of pages and you can see a "before" picture. Progress, but slow.

 

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A few more pics of my stash of dash! ‘46, ‘50, ‘55.

 

HighLander - nice 39’ Dash

 

What size Mop ya think they used to get this texture ?

 

Such a tease. I wanna see more of the top pic.

 

Here's Clarence's dash from a couple of months ago. It should be turning Washington Blue any day now. 1948 F-1 Ford panel truck.

 

The 42 Ford clock and speedo look so much better.

 

'63 Rambler Classic dash

 

The dash in my 40 pickup starting to take transformation.

 

'51 Hudson Hornet