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Thanks Dave! I dont listen to much music but I got to have my conservative talk radio and my Cardinal baseball games.

Here's today's project; the old dash panel was full of extra holes from several add on toggle switches and it had a cable shifter mounted in it. I'm moving the shifter to the floor, plus cleaning up the wiring so I made a new panel. It'll have the speedo, tach, oil press and volts, along with headlight and wiper switch. The speedo has the fuel and temp incorperated in it; I'm leaving them as is. The ignition and heater controls will be on the center console.

Looks good Falcon, with the new dash and heater box the dash is really cleaning up nice.

Falcon since I never could convince Dave to come to Chicago , Invite goes out to you . Don't believe the stories of the Windy City that's all folklore

Sounds like fun, Bobby! Maybe my wife and I can make a trip up in the early spring. I'd like to see your projects up close.

come on up lots to see .

We'll plan on it, sounds like fun!. I decided to get the worst of the bodywork out of the way. The panel above the widshield and rear door looked good from the outside but once i removed the inner roof panel I saw what they had done. Both panels had rusted badly from trapped moisture so what someone did was cut a piece of sheetmetal to match, loaded it up with Liquid Nail, and glued it over the bad panel. Then they put in a bunch of pop rivets. I drilled out over 30 spot welds on each end and got the bad panels out. I made some new ones and got the front finished today.

Here's the last one; we'll tackle the rear one next.

Nice patch Falcon. You are trudging ahead making lots of progress in a short amount of time. Your project is very unique so cool to watch. It must be nice to have a large area to work withing, versus tight spaces of a coupe! I guess the down side is all the surface area for body work and prep!

Thanks! I get going on one and I get a little possessed to finish it. Unfortunately, body and paint is not my best skill so I decided just to go with plain white paint. It's all flat sheet metal so it should be a good one to practice on. I'll be happy with a good 10 footer for this, but I dont like hiding rust and painting over it. Bieng able to stand up inside of it is a definate plus, too.

[QUOTE=falconvan;371560] I get going on one and I get a little possessed QUOTE]

Hmmmmmm. Is that like being a little pregnant?????? You're possessed by Hot Rods, admit it man!!!! Many of us came to this realization about ourselves years ago!!!!!

You're right, Dave. I'm addicted; just ask my wife. At least she doesn't have to drag me out of bars at 2am, she always knows right where I am.

absolutely GREAT improvisation Falcon, I LOVE IT...good work and good LOOKIN work as well...keep it goin n get er done

Thanks Mr Wizard; mighty kind of you to say so.

I suspect Ken Thurm has used the water jet cutting process, not sure if any others of you have. Well, I just had my first experience with it. I've shown the gauge panel I picked up earlier this year to put in the '28 roadster before, and now I've had the dash panel water jet cut to mount the gauge panel through. Pretty neat job these guys did, and beats the heck out of the nibble, cut, nibble, file process used in the past. The first pic is the gauge unit, the second shows it mounted through the dash with the cut-out piece placed for reference, and then the dash in it's final config.