C9x... dash looks really nice but I see your point about the sun on it. Maybe we should develop a synthesized (sp?) voice that tells you the speed, oil pressure.....oh yea, the wife does that already.

Another idea we had was a plain, no hole dash with an instrument panel that automatically lowered when the car was started. It stowed behind the dash and lowered like a license plate retractor....the instruments hung just below the dash lower lip when in service......then, when the car was parked, no gauges or switches are showing.

For us, the challenge is how to look kinda retro and hide all the modern stuff......

mike in tucson