Replacement Dash??

[DaveM]

Hi There:

I would have been very interested in a replacement dash for my '73 Super. My dash had multiple cracks, and the glove box door was a disaster.

I ended up using one of those fiberglass covers on the top and then made plastic pieces and aluminum panels to hold additional gauges. I retained the original speedo so I was limited to using a tach. that bolted onto the top of the dash, I would have prefered an intergrated tach.

Fitting the fiberglass cover was a real pain. It did not "Snap over" the old dash, I had to cut large pieces of the original dash and the foam to get the cover to fit, then I had to hold it in place with screws as there was no place left to just glue the thing in place. I also had to repaint the entire dash as the cover was a nice new shiny black and the remaining pieces of the old dash were sort of dirty brown!

All that could have been avoided with a replacement and I would have happily paid for even quite an expensive piece.

But it's all done now so I'm going to stick with it. For anyone else considering dash repair I would agree that a whole replacement is the way to go. You're right I think, there must be a market for a good quality, reasonably priced dash replacement.

One more thing, new dash vents for the 1973+ Super do not seem to be available anywhere. Mine had suffered abuse and were broken. A replacement dash could be designed to use a style of dash vent that is still available.

DaveM