all handmade from scratch for my boss's cutlass...yeah I know, 70's cutlass doesn't fit this board, but I'm proud of this piece..it is an exact replica of the stock plastic minus the vents and crap. he wanted a smoothed out dashboard so I made this. MANY hours to do, but the same thing can be done for other cars. I started with building a basic framework from 1/2" tubing which formed the upper lip area and then used 1/4" solid rod for the rest of the framework and then formed the sheetmetal for the rest...got painted candy black cherry-ish and then I cut some nice stainless to set into lower tray for future switches, etc to be mounted on
no, it's not heavy at all...90% of the framework is 1/4 solid rod and it's really just the basic framing...the rest is 20g sheet..weighs more than the plastic one, but prolly only weighs about 7lbs
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