Does anyone have any pictures of a 1977-1980 MGB dash without the foam? - stripped and painted
Found a picture of a 75 or 76 and it looks nice, just wonder how the later would look.
Thank you
-Kevin
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This link will provide you with some examples
http://www.mgnuts.com/gallery/index.php?cat=13
This link will provide you with some examples
http://www.mgnuts.com/gallery/index.php?cat=13"
clicked on the garages bit. I actually became a little emotional over some of the set ups, wow
I post one here a year or so ago. It might have been deleted, though. Skype deleted a lot of the pictures-all the old stuff is GONE!- on this site, rather than getting more storage space.
At the moment the car is 350 miles away, and he only picture I found is an old one during assembly.
The photo below shows the wrinkle painted flat metal dash, and it shows the custom 'eyebrow' I made to finish the top edge of it . I made the eyebrow by first bending copper tubin to the shape I wanted it to finish as, then mounted it to the dash with small wooden spacers, then added filler, shaped it, and finished it with a layer of polyester batting and finally stretched vinyl covering.
I happens I also rewired the car using a camaro fuse box and it looked a mess at this point of the project. I subsequently mounted an old fashioned key lock in the lower right portion of the dash, put in a push button starter swith, and added a couple of indicator lights to fill up the small extra holes here and there..
Here's a photo of a stripped late dash, Kevin. It's not painted in the sense of a finished coat. This was taken while I was installing a new dash pad. Not quite what you're looking for but should give you some ideas.
Thanks everyone - This last picture is what I am looking for .
Is that hard foam glued on to the metal? looks like the vents and glovebox would be the challenge.
Thanks
-Kevin
It is. The foam you see stays attached to the metal backing when a new dash pad is installed. If you wanted the "metal" look, you could remove this foam. The metal bit below the centre foam is for the interior light and it could be removed as well; otherwise, this would protrude from the dash and look out of place, IMHO.
If you're looking to create a flat dash with no glove box or vents, you could weld metal over these openings.
This picture is worth many words. Dash pieces before installation
It is. The foam you see stays attached to the metal backing when a new dash pad is installed. If you wanted the "metal" look, you could remove this foam. The metal bit below the centre foam is for the interior light and it could be removed as well; otherwise, this would protrude from the dash and look out of place, IMHO.
If you're looking to create a flat dash with no glove box or vents, you could weld metal over these openings."
So it's the foam that raises the profile across the vents and the glove box??
Yes. I removed all the foam and finished mine as a flat piece. I've done a couple of others, and some. as I recall, have small plates spot welded under the foam to cover openings the factoory used in previous versions of the dash. I made a different glove box cover out of a piece of plywood I covered with vacuum forming black haircell abs sheet, so it all has the flat black wrinkle look.
I always thought the vents were stupid (and ugly) since the heater is so marginal, so I discarded them and let the hot (tepid, actually) air blow behind the dash. I used the square vent mounting hole for a speaker.
Correct. Thought I had a photo of the back-side of a new dash pad which would explain it better. The foam that's still on the metal backing does fill in the gap between the metal and the new pad. As shown is Scot's photo, you get an idea of what the metal backing looks like without this foam attached. Even though his dash and mine are different years, the vent and glove box openings are similar so the fixed foam would be almost identical.
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