1952-59 Ford instrument cluster / speedo lens

1954 ford customline that has the plastic dome over the top of the speedometer,where can you purchase both of those pieces,the lens and the dome?

 

If yours is not broken, polish it by hand. I have seen them for sale, Macs?

 

i have a compete cluster id sell, ill have to take a pic of the top of it

 

the speedo works ,it just looks like **** cause the lens in the front and on top have hairline cracks all over them,ive looked at macs online and didnt see them,also obsolete cl***ic auto parts catalog and didnt see them, checked ebay,nothing, someone has to sell the replacements right. Old Ladys Mad, can you tell me how you posted that pic,i can post pics on the main board but i dont have that option in this group for some reason. I know its hard to explain stuff without pics.

 

the pic is stored on photobucket. copy the image code from there and post it here in you post like this

http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa99/old_ladys_mad/40%20plymouth%20tr/tammy****turecard121.jpg[/IMG

and you will wind up with this, was thinking of my ol buddy

[IMG]http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa99/old_ladys_mad/40%20plymouth%20tr/tammy****turecard121.jpg

 

Here's a link on how to post pictures.
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/...discussionid=18102&gmid=327154#gmessage327154

 

Are they the same as 1955? If so, then Concourse (http://www.concoursparts.com/) has them. The front gl*** is around $35 and the dome is $30.

 

The 55 Speedo goes to 120, the 54 goes to 110... other than that they look awfully close.

Mine are shot.

 

Unfortunately no one makes these for the '54... seems like the only year that you can't get them, which seems odd to me because the '54s seem pretty popular.

I took my original speedo face to a plastic shop called TAP Plastics and they cut a replacement out of lexan, and then I had my buddy at a sign shop make me a vinyl overlay with the numbers. I made a stock version, and also took the opportunity to make a custom version also. I think it cost me about $40 to have 3 of the plastic pieces cut, and the vinyl was free but any sign shop could do that for pretty cheap.

The stock version isn't a perfect original, but if you needed it perfect you could probably take the replacement lens to a screen-printer that could do a more precise copy of the the original lettering. You could probably also have a good plastic shop reproduce the astra-lens on a vacuum former, but you'd have to start with a structurally solid original and it might not be the cheapest endeavor.

Here's the Illustrator layout over a scan of my original part...



And here's how it turned out...

 

^^^^^ that looks good , good idea to.

 

I look for a long time and couldn't find any reproduction. Even bought a '55 dome to try and make it work. It won't. I finally found a complete ***embly at a swap meet and polished the dome to use on mine.