Here's a photo of my new dash, still being assembled on my workbench.
Basic dash plate is stainless steel, made by a guy who sells stainless dashes on ebay.
I sent him a drawing for a custom design, he made it to my specs.
Differences from standard dash:
- Spaces for five 2 1/8 gauges, will be filled with temp, oil pres., fuel, volt, clock. Note I didn't put in the stock clock hole. I did put in the stock tach hole. I've put "idiot lights" in for several of the gauges, which will be driven by an Autometer "Tri-Alert"
- DIN radio hole
- Two cigarette lighter outlets where the stock clock would be
- Above the stock light switch, I put a second hole for a wiper switch, and a rectangular dash light. This will be for a rear wiper. I'm restoring an Alaskan Postal hardtop, and I'm putting a wiper in the rear door window.
- Above the steering column I put another rectangular dash light hole, this will be for a "Check Engine" light when I install EFI. (When I did the design, I didn't realize the steering column bracket would be behind here, so I'll need to cut a hole in the bracket. Oops.)
Other than that everything is stock.
I am making custom dash lights for the "Rear Wiper" and "Check Engine" lights. You can disassemble the stock lights and remove the lettering. I'm replacing these with custom lettering done on my computer and a blue piece of filter material. These work out very cool, look totally stock but I can make the lettering/graphics be whatever I want.