and another question re GT Broghams....

[CanCritter]

the dash on my 71 gt is cracked ect and more than likely will see a tip to just dashs in its near future



question is....l have a mint dash to replace it but being Brogham the dash is diffrent with the speaker grills..wondering if this is same dash with grills added or something diffrent entirely?..dont want wrong dash in there...



Thanx

 

[SportFury]

Dash is the same, yours has the the extra speakers.

 

[CanCritter]

Dash is the same, yours has the the extra speakers.

so in reality backing is same for most part?..would just have to remove speaker grills and swap to new dash?
wonder how those puppys are in there..hopefully thier not molded..will have good look on weekend...thanx Sport

 

[thrashingcows]

Hope you have a few dozen yards of bubble wrap, card board and packaging your going to use to secure the stuff being transported in that there trunk? Would hate for things to arrive at the restoration shop in unusable shape...;)

Generally the 3 speaker dashes just have a hole cut in the under dash metal frame, and the vinyl top as well, and then the small speakers and grille are secured to this from the under side. But hacking holes in that nice clean original might end up causing damage in the outer vinyl that will quickly crack and spread.

Persoanlly I would sell the mint one, and send my original to Just Dashes for a redo.

 

[68plymouth383]

I would just clean the black one up and install without the extra grill. It has a clean look already. I personally wouldn't put a hole in it.........

 

[tallhair]

Hope you have a few dozen yards of bubble wrap, card board and packaging your going to use to secure the stuff being transported in that there trunk? Would hate for things to arrive at the restoration shop in unusable shape...;)

Generally the 3 speaker dashes just have a hole cut in the under dash metal frame, and the vinyl top as well, and then the small speakers and grille are secured to this from the under side. But hacking holes in that nice clean original might end up causing damage in the outer vinyl that will quickly crack and spread.

Persoanlly I would sell the mint one, and send my original to Just Dashes for a redo.

I was going to say that too. Those things will rub against each other rapidly a couple gazillion times and it won't be pretty

 

[68plymouth383]

Very true. Soon all the other parts in the trunk will bounce around and the dash pad will have a million craters in it.

I was going to say that too. Those things will rub against each other rapidly a couple gazillion times and it won't be pretty

 

[saforwardlook]

I sure hope you don't make the mistake of sending your dash to Just Dashes. What a mess they create - they just cover up the old dash with some vinyl with a thin with foam backing. When in the sun, they also tend to bubble up in places, and then all the character lines are muted badly with the covering. Like I said before, wait a couple months more and Bob Baker will have brand new quality reproduction dash pads identical to your car and even with the speaker holes in them available. And the price will be substantially below the Just Dashes crap. I have no idea why anyone would buy a Just Dashes redo, given how bad they look. I would rather have an original cracked one in my car than their junk.

 

[CanCritter]

hmm..few things l havent thought about...just dashs..this is the first bad thing lve heard but have seen the vid they put out and with further consideration after saforwardlooks coments he has a point re the vynal and fitment over time with sun..then theres the coments re cracking around speaker area if l were to cut it for speaker grills

re stuff in trunk...a good portion of the stuff in trunk will not go down..lot of it was gathered by prievious owner and is used stuff..will use stuff orrignall to car but have sourced out eom nos stuff like complete rear taillights..lotta stuff in trunk are doubles..heck think theres 3 extra sets of door sills,extra extra extra..not complaining by any means..will restore what l can and replace what l cant
vid of stuff l found in trunk


have caught a few posts re the new repop dashs comeing out but never caught who and when..thinkin l should wait and see whats up with them as l have the time as resto will be a ongoing thing through the winter

Thrashing has a good idea and considered selling black dash to partialy cover cost of sending orriginall to just dashs
in the end am left with more questions than awnsers..thinkin keyword here is paitience and wait and see what Baker puts out
then again may get lucky if this is in the restorers range of talents

 

[saforwardlook]

Here is a link to Bob Baker's website and the page for the dashes currently available or soon to be available:

http://www.abcmoparts.com/products.asp?cat=12

His dashes are quality reproductions that look just like the original ones in faithful detail. And his prices are almost half of what Just Dashes charges for their stuff............

 

[Mr C]

I'm astonished he has anything C body. Really nice to see! (Still no Formal stuff, I'm not surprised). What colours does he have? I find that the more exotic 60's 70's colours do not often get covered in reproductions (Normally white or black are available first and then slowly other colours slowly creep into the product lines).

 

[fc7_plumcrazy]

"just dashes" has very poorly repaired upper door panels for a 70 Charger RT (white interieur).
I wouldn't give them any parts to redo

Carsten

 

[Fratzog]

I sure hope you don't make the mistake of sending your dash to Just Dashes. What a mess they create - they just cover up the old dash with some vinyl with a thin with foam backing. When in the sun, they also tend to bubble up in places, and then all the character lines are muted badly with the covering. Like I said before, wait a couple months more and Bob Baker will have brand new quality reproduction dash pads identical to your car and even with the speaker holes in them available. And the price will be substantially below the Just Dashes crap. I have no idea why anyone would buy a Just Dashes redo, given how bad they look. I would rather have an original cracked one in my car than their junk.

Im astounded by your comments about Just Dashes. Had the pad for my 68 Monaco 500 done by them and they did an outstanding job. That was about 4 years ago. Has something changed since then.

 

[polara71]

Im astounded by your comments about Just Dashes. Had the pad for my 68 Monaco 500 done by them and they did an outstanding job. That was about 4 years ago. Has something changed since then.

Fred, do they just do an overlay or actually strip it down and re do the dash? I too have never heard anything bad about them until this board.

 

[Fratzog]

Strip down to metal and rebuild with foam and vinyl using vacuum forming process if I recall correctly.

 

[polara71]

I sure hope you don't make the mistake of sending your dash to Just Dashes. What a mess they create - they just cover up the old dash with some vinyl with a thin with foam backing.

"just dashes" has very poorly repaired upper door panels for a 70 Charger RT (white interieur).
I wouldn't give them any parts to redo

Carsten

Strip down to metal and rebuild with foam and vinyl using vacuum forming process if I recall correctly.

Im getting mixed signals....

 

[saforwardlook]

Scott had them redo the one from his 65 300 (the beautiful car at the beginning of the home page here) since they were the only real option at the time if you did not have access to a nice original one. While he was fine with it, he did have an issue with it bubbling up in the heat in at least one place, and while he was satisfied with the pad overall I believe, I would not have been because all the character lines were very faint and it looked puffy compared to an original one, because like I said, they just repair the cracks in your dash that you send in and then recover it with a new vinyl faced thin foam backing. I talked to them at the Spring Fling out here in Southern California a couple of times over the years, and that is what they told me they do. Maybe Scott can shed more light. I have never seen a pad they do that I liked, even their examples that they displayed at the Spring Fling's each year. Maybe I am too picky though. I Just like my pad to look like the crisp original ones, since on a restored car, when driving it, I am looking at the pad all the time, and a really nice pad makes the interior to my eyes.

When Bob Baker is reproducing crisp new molded pads using your frame, and his price is almost half of Just Dashes, I can not fathom why anyone would not just go with Bob's pads?

 

[polara71]

I plan on taking a pad to Carlisle for Bob to do

 

[Fratzog]

http://www.justdashes.com/

I was mistaken about Just Dashes going to metal. Their website shows the process. I am very satisfied with the mine. It is black and has sat in the sun all day at numerous show with no ill effects.

 

[CanCritter]

well got out to look at mine today and will use the spare oem dash l have...all l have to do is swap over speaker grills and mayby cut a hole..just wondering if those exra grills are part of Brogham package or came with consul casset as a package.....