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Blitzkrieg_
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 Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 1:53 am Post subject: RHD Type 3 owners - Take note |
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Have a look at this linky, there is a guy planning a run of new RHD Type 3 dashboards, which are practically unobtainium 
RHD Type 3 dash info |
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vlad01
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 2:15 am Post subject: |
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what the?
ABS!, around $145 each!.
No thanks, I would rather keep my slightly cracked dash or have it properly rebuild ground up by dash professionals. |
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turbomicrowaves
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 9:28 am Post subject: |
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what the?
ABS!, around $145 each!.
No thanks, I would rather keep my slightly cracked dash or have it properly rebuild ground up by dash professionals. |
I'd like to see how they turn out, I'm a little skeptical about the ABS with leather finish.
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vlad01
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 1:18 pm Post subject: |
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My daily 92 commodore has 99% ABS plasic everything. Most appalling material ever to be used in cars. Ever since the late 80's ABS has been used for every car interior and it's just shit.
UV stabilized my ass, what? 12 months? Worst part its going to be shiny not flat, so it will be annoying like hell, just like in my "modern car" |
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68notch
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 5:08 pm Post subject: RHD dash |
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This also something that I was hoping to make too. I work mostly with moulding carbon fibre and epoxy parts for marine and automotive. My plan was to make epoxy fibregass/carbon dashes and then get them vinyl wrapped.
I have old dashes to build my new original pattern but no progress so far. In the end they will probably still be quite costly to buy but should really look the part depending on the vinyl job which is out of my hands. As with the guys in SA, drilling the speaker holes will have to be an afterthought if required.
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vlad01
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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that would be a much better plan. The dash restoration place in Brisbane do a very similar job when rebuilding or cloning your dash.
The make fibreglass under mould(structure), coat it in high density foam of some sort (I think urethane),
then vacuum stretch vinyl or leather over the whole thing/selected areas.
Most other places bog cracks and lay vinyl on top  |
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syncrodoka
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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| ABS? No thanks, I will keep my cracked OG dash. |
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vlad01
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2011 12:04 am Post subject: |
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| bahahaha! |
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Blitzkrieg_
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| Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2011 2:06 am Post subject: |
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Here is a pic of the finished product 
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vlad01
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| Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2011 2:14 am Post subject: |
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| hmm interesting? looks a little wonky. |
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Blitzkrieg_
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| Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2011 5:12 am Post subject: |
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| hmm interesting? looks a little wonky. |
And you drew this conclusion simply by looking at a single photo that I posted?
Interesting.
I post this here as I feel it is something that the greater type 3 community may have an interest in. There's no reason for you to make snarky comments and be a hater.
I will be getting one of these for my Notch; will post some pictures when I get mine fitted into the car... |
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ataraxia
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| Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2011 6:20 am Post subject: |
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| Blitzkrieg_ wrote: |
Here is a pic of the finished product
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I think it looks okay in the picture...but the real deal is when it's installed. How well does it fit? How shiny is it in the direct sun?
I think ABS is okay for car parts and if wrapped in vinyl to resemble the OE look, it'd be a decent option. Filling the underside with foam wouldn't be too complicated.
And even with shipping, you can't beat the price.
If they were made in LHD, there would be a decent line of people to buy them. I think no speaker hole looks better than that rubbery repop one that's been around for 20 years.
It'll be interesting to see how it looks installed in a car. |
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vegasquare
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Here ill do it ever though I don't have a rhd car (I wish)......
Wow cool someone took the time and spent the money to make what looks to be in the only pic available a QUALITY reproduction part! Thank you we need more people in this hobbie spending time helping to source parts that untill they MAKE them don't exist.. last time I checked not every car is 100% correct matching numbers concourse show car. That being said this looks be in the only photo available a very presentable piece and the people who make it should be thanked for there contribution. Ok now im off my soapbox sorry for the rant now I remember why I never post. |
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ataraxia
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Here ill do it ever though I don't have a rhd car (I wish)......
Wow cool someone took the time and spent the money to make what looks to be in the only pic available a QUALITY reproduction part! Thank you we need more people in this hobbie spending time helping to source parts that untill they MAKE them don't exist.. last time I checked not every car is 100% correct matching numbers concourse show car. That being said this looks be in the only photo available a very presentable piece and the people who make it should be thanked for there contribution. Ok now im off my soapbox sorry for the rant now I remember why I never post. |
I can agree with your general sentiment...but even you have to admit (if you've bought a good share of parts) that there are a LOT of mediocre parts for these cars! |
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vlad01
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| Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2011 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Blitzkrieg_ wrote: |
| vlad01 wrote: |
| hmm interesting? looks a little wonky. |
And you drew this conclusion simply by looking at a single photo that I posted?
Interesting.
I post this here as I feel it is something that the greater type 3 community may have an interest in. There's no reason for you to make snarky comments and be a hater.
I will be getting one of these for my Notch; will post some pictures when I get mine fitted into the car... |
yup  I can clearly see its needs some tweaking to the curves especially around the small gauges.
what would actually be better imho is to make this a slightly shrunk down version in fiber glass and make it available in either raw fiber glass for those who want to trim it to their choice of textile or a version already trimmed in oem style vinyl.
that way the fiber glass basis is already there for what ever customer application or quality they desire.
Yes fiber glass! its way better than ABS |
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RHD Notch
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The last NOS one I saw here in the classifieds had a $1000 price tag and seemed to be gone perty quickly IIRC...and that was a couple years ago.
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vlad01
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| yep I saw a 2nd hand but perfect 70's dash here in oz go for $800. was sold same day the ad was posted. |
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Mike Fisher
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We need LHD toppers for 950R or metal dashes & toppers, so we can convert to RHD. I loved driving my RHD MINI panel!
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67FastyRSA
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| Mike Fisher wrote: |
We need LHD toppers for 950R or metal dashes & toppers, so we can convert to RHD. I loved driving my RHD MINI panel!
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