Thread: New Dash for The Hot Rod

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Originally Posted by Whiplash23T

I like the bright colour,just remember your sunglasses on a real sunny day. Joking aside,that looks better and more unclutted and like what you did to the steering wheel. Did you get the engine sorted,you were having problems with something but I just can't remember with what?

Thanks, and yeah it's BRITE..... Got the engine sorted out. It was a fuse holder. It had one of the tangs that the plug in fuse contacts broken, and it would heat up and voltage would drop till ignition cut off. Finally found it by ataching my dig volt meter to coil leads and let it run and watched voltage drop then back tracked it. It was hard to find because when I checked voltage it would be correct. It would cool pretty quick and problem would dissapear quickly. Since I replaced it, it has run flawlessly even in 102 deg. weather. Thank Goodness.............................

Yeah that dash was just too busy. I saw a 56 Olds cluster, and just had to put one in somthing. I'll try to get a good pic at nite, looks really sweet lit up.

Wow! That's wild! I know you didn't ask but if it was mine, I would not paint the ribs on the dash black. They add some nice texture to the bright green dash but painting them a different color would make the dash look very busy and cluttered again, which is what I thought you were trying to get away from. With the upholstery, the diamond plate, and all the other eye-catching stuff going on there I think it would be too much. But, then again, it's not my car......have fun with it!

Originally Posted by randyr

Wow! That's wild! I know you didn't ask but if it was mine, I would not paint the ribs on the dash black. They add some nice texture to the bright green dash but painting them a different color would make the dash look very busy and cluttered again, which is what I thought you were trying to get away from. With the upholstery, the diamond plate, and all the other eye-catching stuff going on there I think it would be too much. But, then again, it's not my car......have fun with it!

You may be right. I have to stare at stuff awhile and ponder on it. Wild is what I was after, so I guess I nailed it.

Originally Posted by Evolvo

That upholstery makes my eyeballs vibrate!! Me likey!!

Thanks. Material was free, just cost a can of glue and some hog rings. I grew to like it. It kinda fits the 68 to 72 era. Those wild custom rods, and of course the psychedelic era. Gonna throw some lime green vinyl to break it up a bit. But it is what it is..............