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A-body dash cap #470032 09/16/09 01:22 PM 09/16/09 01:22 PM
Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 5,037 hi sharpie OP Moparts Linguist
sharpie OP Moparts Linguist Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 5,037 hi	can anyone post a picture of an A-body dash cap and a picture of an A-body dash pad? I want to see the difference, because no one explains it that well. Thanks.

Re: A-body dash cap [Re: sharpie] #470033 09/16/09 02:54 PM 09/16/09 02:54 PM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 17,862 albany ny 0 05dakota I Live Here
05dakota I Live Here 0 Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 17,862 albany ny	a cap is a plastic cover that goes over the cracked pad

Re: A-body dash cap [Re: 05dakota] #470034 09/16/09 04:09 PM 09/16/09 04:09 PM
Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 8,087 Elk Grove, Calif. B bigblock340power master
bigblock340power master B Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 8,087 Elk Grove, Calif.	Brian, if you want to do it right, and have it look real good. Spring for the "new" dash pad. If your just looking to get by, put a cap on it. Mine has a real small split in one corner. Can hardly see it. But I want it correct. So off to the "dash" re builders it goes. I'm still thinking of doing the three gages in the dash pad thing. But not sure I like it that much.

Re: A-body dash cap [Re: bigblock340power] #470035 09/16/09 04:30 PM 09/16/09 04:30 PM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 20,730 Eagle, Idaho Neil The Doctor is in.
Neil The Doctor is in. Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 20,730 Eagle, Idaho	If yours is ugly throw a carpet style dash mat over it and save $$$$$ for the real deal later on.

Re: A-body dash cap [Re: sharpie] #470036 09/16/09 04:34 PM 09/16/09 04:34 PM
Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 2,143 Port Saint Lucie, FL ChallengerGary top fuel
ChallengerGary top fuel Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 2,143 Port Saint Lucie, FL	Here's a pic of the dash on my old 71 Duster. It had a cap on it. Darn near impossible to tell especially in this pic... 5486619-5-18-09c.jpg (66 downloads)

Re: A-body dash cap [Re: bigblock340power] #470037 09/16/09 05:01 PM 09/16/09 05:01 PM
Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 76 Riverside Ca J jedrattle member
jedrattle member J Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 76 Riverside Ca	Quote: Brian, if you want to do it right, and have it look real good. Spring for the "new" dash pad. If your just looking to get by, put a cap on it. Mine has a real small split in one corner. Can hardly see it. But I want it correct. So off to the "dash" re builders it goes. I'm still thinking of doing the three gages in the dash pad thing. But not sure I like it that much. Who does that? `47 Studebaker-pu-mopared `68 Dart conv.-GTS clone `69 Toyota Landcruiser-rockcrawler `04 Neon-wifes `05 3500-4x,qc,lb,cummins,6sp A few motorcycles and no $$$

Re: A-body dash cap [Re: ChallengerGary] #470038 09/16/09 05:22 PM 09/16/09 05:22 PM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 42,714 Spokane Washington ScottSmith_Harms Mr Wizzard
ScottSmith_Harms Mr Wizzard Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 42,714 Spokane Washington	If you REALLY wnt to do it right put a new pad on, BEA Parts sells one for around $200.00 that is an awesome reproduction and not difficult to install either. www.beaparts.com

Re: A-body dash cap [Re: ScottSmith_Harms] #470039 09/16/09 08:03 PM 09/16/09 08:03 PM
Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 5,037 hi sharpie OP Moparts Linguist
sharpie OP Moparts Linguist Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 5,037 hi	Anyone know if BEA's 'tan' is the chestnut brown, or is it really 'tan'?

Re: A-body dash cap [Re: sharpie] #470040 09/16/09 08:57 PM 09/16/09 08:57 PM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 42,714 Spokane Washington ScottSmith_Harms Mr Wizzard
ScottSmith_Harms Mr Wizzard Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 42,714 Spokane Washington	Haven't seen anything but black in person but a can of vinyl dye can make it anything you want in a jiffy, and a whole lot cheaper than $600.00 or more for an incorrect looking Just Dashes recover too!

Re: A-body dash cap [Re: ScottSmith_Harms] #470041 09/16/09 09:14 PM 09/16/09 09:14 PM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 43,607 Round Lake Beach, Illinoisy Rhinodart Rhinotruck
Rhinodart Rhinotruck Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 43,607 Round Lake Beach, Illinoisy	Dash caps look fine for about a year. Just wait until the sun starts warping it and most people do not glue it down right. After you get pisssed and pull it off, it takes the rest of the cracked pad off with it. Biggest waste of money anyone can do with thier car. The funny thing about science is that if you change one miniscule parameter you change the entire outcome to the way you want it. JB Rhinehart, Realist A-Body's RULE!

Re: A-body dash cap [Re: Rhinodart] #470042 09/16/09 09:21 PM 09/16/09 09:21 PM
Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 2,327 Glendale, AZ 6 69L78Nova Banned. Forever.
69L78Nova Banned. Forever. 6 Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 2,327 Glendale, AZ	Does anyone reproduce the 68 A-body pad, or am I stuck sending mine out to be redone? Everything I find is for the 69-76 pad 1969 Nova 454/M21/3.31 Mild mid-11 second weekend cruiser 1994 F150 XLT Super Cab 2WD 5.0/4R70W/3.55 (Daily driver)

Re: A-body dash cap [Re: 69L78Nova] #470043 09/16/09 09:43 PM 09/16/09 09:43 PM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 27,475 So Cal autoxcuda Too Many Posts
autoxcuda Too Many Posts Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 27,475 So Cal	Quote: Does anyone reproduce the 68 A-body pad, or am I stuck sending mine out to be redone? Everything I find is for the 69-76 pad Mike at www.beaparts.com said that was the next pad they were doing. So it should be comming, when that is I have no idea. Sharpie, the caps are $70 or something. The new pad is $130 more. You'd have to dye the cap also, so same difference. There were some pictures of an install on FABO recently. You can see the cap cover on the ends.

Re: A-body dash cap [Re: ScottSmith_Harms] #470044 09/16/09 10:49 PM 09/16/09 10:49 PM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 20,730 Eagle, Idaho Neil The Doctor is in.
Neil The Doctor is in. Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 20,730 Eagle, Idaho	Quote: Haven't seen anything but black in person but a can of vinyl dye can make it anything you want in a jiffy, and a whole lot cheaper than $600.00 or more for an incorrect looking Just Dashes recover too! I had Just Dashes do mine a few years back and it came out super nice and all for about the same cost as what Legendary was asking for their repop at the time (a hair over $200.00 iirc). The grain texture and everything about it looks pretty close to me. Maybe they have changed things since then? My previous car was a 67 mustang and I bought a repo dash pad and what a glorious pile of crap that was. The majority of the mounting studs wouldn't line up with the holes in the cars steel dash frame + it was more like plastic than foam covered vinyl. It started to twist around in the sun after a few years too. Having delt with that BS I decided once was enough so I spent my money having the dash pad that I already knew fit the car refurbished.

Re: A-body dash cap [Re: Neil] #470045 09/16/09 11:55 PM 09/16/09 11:55 PM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 27,475 So Cal autoxcuda Too Many Posts
autoxcuda Too Many Posts Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 27,475 So Cal	Quote: Quote: Haven't seen anything but black in person but a can of vinyl dye can make it anything you want in a jiffy, and a whole lot cheaper than $600.00 or more for an incorrect looking Just Dashes recover too! I had Just Dashes do mine a few years back and it came out super nice and all for about the same cost as what Legendary was asking for their repop at the time (a hair over $200.00 iirc). The grain texture and everything about it looks pretty close to me. Maybe they have changed things since then? My previous car was a 67 mustang and I bought a repo dash pad and what a glorious pile of crap that was. The majority of the mounting studs wouldn't line up with the holes in the cars steel dash frame + it was more like plastic than foam covered vinyl. It started to twist around in the sun after a few years too. Having delt with that BS I decided once was enough so I spent my money having the dash pad that I already knew fit the car refurbished. The Mustang aftermarket many times has two manufactures/qualities. Used to be Ford still sold most of the quality stuff then there still where cheap repro knockoffs for cheaper. Then about 7-10 years ago Ford started dropping all the old Mustang part numbers. Sometimes now they will be advertised as OE tooling. My brother got a 70 Mustang dash straight from Ford in 1995? or so. That car has sat outside for 14 years now just under a technolon California Car Cover. Dash is perfect and looks new. I bet Ford still made 1967 dashes around 15 years ago (not that long ago). I know they offered a Ford and at least one manufacturer aftermarket 64-66 Mustang new dashpad. There is a bunch of repro Mustang stuff that is real Chinese junk. We just bought some 70 only oval rolled lip repro exhaust tips for like $140/pr. The chrome was so thin they almost immediatly rusted. My 40 year old 68 Cuda tips are in better shape. Last edited by autoxcuda; 09/17/09 12:20 AM.

Re: A-body dash cap [Re: autoxcuda] #470046 09/17/09 12:03 AM 09/17/09 12:03 AM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 42,714 Spokane Washington ScottSmith_Harms Mr Wizzard
ScottSmith_Harms Mr Wizzard Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 42,714 Spokane Washington	I own an NOS dash 69 and later A-body pad and bought a reproduction from BEA. Side by side comparison was so good that when I posted pics more people guessed the reproduction pad as the NOS pad than not. Same construction, same stud locations (studs were a bit longer than stock which is no big deal) and grain was close enough to call it a match. I installed it on a 71 Demon and fit was perfecto. I HIGHLY doubt you'll see any of the problems with thier pads as you did with the mustang.

Re: A-body dash cap [Re: ScottSmith_Harms] #470047 09/17/09 12:47 AM 09/17/09 12:47 AM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 70,126 Here DirectSubjection Tacohead. The First and Only
DirectSubjection Tacohead. The First and Only Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 70,126 Here	Repro pad I bought from Jack's a while ago (no BEA back then) during the install - I love it! This is raw as delivered, I just popped it on. If I had to do over again I'd take 30 seconds and give it a spray of black - there's one little spot that no one else notices - lazy me. 5487694-Dash.JPG (60 downloads) Ride eternal, shiny and chrome

Re: A-body dash cap [Re: 69L78Nova] #470048 09/19/09 10:56 AM 09/19/09 10:56 AM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 4,395 The Pale Blue Dot Skeptic master
Skeptic master Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 4,395 The Pale Blue Dot	Quote: Does anyone reproduce the 68 A-body pad, or am I stuck sending mine out to be redone? Everything I find is for the 69-76 pad 1A auto Parts has them, I used them on my Barracuda. I can't comment on longevity, but they look good, not great, much better than the rotted out dash. My car is by no means a restoration, if you are leaning in that direction -even a little- than save your coins and get the dash re-done. If you go that way be prepared to remove the dash pads and have a lot of clip clamps to hold everything together while the silicon cures. I'm gutting the interior so it wasn't an issue for me. Last edited by Busfixer; 09/19/09 11:01 AM.

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