Winter project

[DetMatt1]

Stripped of vinyl and I’m masking them off to repaint the black portions before new vinyl.
Also going to spruce up the plastic bezel parts and the light bar.
Not concours resto here mind you.

 

[DetMatt1]

New gauge is in and even works!
Vinyl is on the switch bezel and the gauge bezel is next.

 

[DetMatt1]

Almost there.

 

[DetMatt1]

So good!

 

[340challconvert]

That came out exceptionally well! Nice Job.

 

[DetMatt1]

Thanks Phill, I’ll have to finish it next week. I’m going to have to pull the column and paint it now too. One thing leads to another...

 

[wayne]

Looks good Matt, those little details make a big difference. Plus its what you see all the time from the drivers seat. Enjoy!

 

[moparlee]

Thanks Phill, I’ll have to finish it next week. I’m going to have to pull the column and paint it now too. One thing leads to another...

Ah shoot Matt, you might as well go ahead and pull the whole dash and paint it while you are at it. Looks great, nice work.

 

[wedg2go]

Wow Matt!!! That looks great. No lie.

You might have me re-thinking about repairing mine. I put a small run in it when I had to remove the tach. Didn't realize, at the time, there is a 'civilize' order to r-n'-r. So...meh to me and my stone hammer.

I have also given a lot of thought to remove the bezels, along with the door panel inserts, take them down to the painter and have him shoot the pieces the same color as the exterior (See avatar). Really not thinking "Concours" here at all! Nope. My only draw back? Whether the introduction of the painted pieces would look right with a black interior and a light wood grain steering wheel.

Decisions - Decisions?

 

[DetMatt1]

Ah shoot Matt, you might as well go ahead and pull the whole dash and paint it while you are at it. Looks great, nice work.

Thanks and absolutely not! This is as far as I’m going.

 

[DetMatt1]

Man what a difference! Now the old radio bezel looks ridiculous next to the new HVAC bezel I bought when the conversion was done....
I’ll have the steering column put back together and installed tomorrow.

 

[DetMatt1]

This is where I stop for the year on this car. I can put it up for the winter in good conscience and give my buddy back his oil pressure gauge.

 

[moparlee]

That is a big difference. You gotta love that new look.

 

[rbbruno3]

Came out nice Matt

 

[6PKRTSE]

Looking good so far. Very cool build.

 

[mmissile]

Looks great Matt. Haven't been on the board for quite some time.

 

[AUSTA]

Great work,perfection takes time

 

[6PKRTSE]

Love the Rallye gauges. I couldn't put the factory gauges back in my dash due to the knee bar running through the dash from side to side for the cage. So I made a 1 of 1 factory gauge delete panel since I was going with a Racepak anyway. I made a bilet mount to my steering column. It's like 24 gauges in one.
Features:

• Turn, High Beam, Park Indictors
• Odometer, Speedometer Fuel Level
• Oil Pressure
• Coolant Temperature
• Transmission Temperature
• Optional GPS Speed Inputs
• Internal input for OBD2 - 2008 later
• Fully User Programmable
• Four Display Screens
• Replaces Up To 24 Gauges
• Single Cable External Sensor Input
• Internal input for over 20 Aftermarket
• EFI systems
• Up to 32 standalone remote sensors.

 

[DetMatt1]

I’ve basically been daily driving this car this year and the top, which has been slowing down a bit over the last year or so finally was only lifting at a snails pace. I was hoping to find the reservoir a bit low so I took it all apart to check and unfortunately that wasn’t the case. The motor itself runs good it’s just the pump is not moving fluid so I pulled it and I will try my hand at rebuilding it when I have time. It can wait because I just dismantled a very low mileage ‘66 Imperial convertible that had a great working top and was pleasantly surprised that the pump is virtually identical so I installed it until I can find the time to get after the original. It was good that I was forced to take the rear seat and panels off because the back window cranks and tracks had gotten dry and were making an embarrassing screeching noise…

 

[moparlee]

Yep, fix everything that needs fix'n while you are in there.

Another good reason to have multiple Mopars, you never know when you may need some of those hard to find spare parts.