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Dec 08, 2009 20:15:46
mrcorrao

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

Dec 08, 2009 21:22:25
bleteaches6

This link will provide you with some examples

http://www.mgnuts.com/gallery/index.php?cat=13





Dec 09, 2009 03:29:15
Peter-Sherman

Quote: "
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

Dec 09, 2009 07:03:01
scotabbott

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..

Dec 09, 2009 09:28:16
Simon Austin

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.

Dec 09, 2009 10:55:34
mrcorrao

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

Dec 09, 2009 11:03:58
Simon Austin

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.

Dec 10, 2009 08:04:51
scotabbott

This picture is worth many words. Dash pieces before installation

Dec 10, 2009 08:20:28
lars49

Quote: "
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??

Dec 10, 2009 08:35:58
scotabbott

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.

Dec 10, 2009 10:04:23
Simon Austin

Quote: "So it's the foam that raises the profile across the vents and the glove box??"


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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