a.d._510_n_ok Posted September 16, 2014 Report Share Posted September 16, 2014 the vinyl dash pad on my '80 510 was rotten when I got it in '08 so I ripped it off and have been running topless ever since and it looks like wombat barf (see pic 1). a few months back one of our mixer trucks had a fiberglass hood fall apart from our wonderful Oklahoma roads beating it to death. I scrounged the fiberglass brace out of it and have slowly been chopping it into the right shape with an angle grinder and a thin cutting disc. note: the gray crap on the flat part of the piece that looks like fourteen years of road grime is fourteen years of road grime accumulated after almost a decade and a half of being on the front end of a Sterling mixer - hadn't washed or sanded the piece yet. The carnie "molest you behind the funnel cake trailer when you get off the tilt-a-whirl" green is actually my company's fleet color. my pic's didn't capture it but the piece really has some neat contours that mimic a factory dash pad. I may build two end pieces out of some black expanded metal that I also salvaged from the truck (grill pieces) and do away entirely with the swivel defrosters. here are a few pics of the piece in the daylight: the white area in the last pic is where the air cleaner for the mixer was mounted & had been concealed from the factory paint. It was revealed when I spilt the piece to get the contours I wanted. Eventually, this will all be some shade of blue.....or fleckstone bwahahahaha!!!!! fleckstone for an early 1990s flashback! 2 Quote Link to comment
a.d._510_n_ok Posted September 16, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2014 out with the old ~ in with the new ~ 1 Quote Link to comment
bananahamuck Posted September 17, 2014 Report Share Posted September 17, 2014 now you'll have to paint your C clamps to match. 2 Quote Link to comment
a.d._510_n_ok Posted October 9, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2014 bolted the thing in. only blue paint I had was fomoco valve cover blue on hand and I can't drive anywhere so I had to make do. still haven't decided what I'm gonna do end cap wise. 2 Quote Link to comment
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