Hot Rods Building my first roadster in Kansas City

Still on the A. Just trying to keep that ball rolling til I run out of something I need to keep it going.

I did get the T spring pulled off the A banjo and started eyeballing the 41 rear. I don’t have a work day to spare at the moment to tear the old spring off and swap but I did put the 750-16’s on 35 wires on the rear as the A is getting steelies and some mockup excelsiors for a minute. I think this is really only a good week of picking at it from being a rolling chassis sans drivetrain mounts.

but I did play with this idea a little today while taking a lunch break. Ive been picturing this bottom gauge pod hanging off a dash rail upside down for some time. Twist the gauges back up right and stick my switches in the red surround. I’m sure I’ve mentioned it in this thread already.

But when I go this second set of gauges and insert from Atch I thought hey wait a minute what if….. if I put the two together I get a bevy of instruments, a star on each side and I’m betting that’s getting dang close to model T dash width.

Don’t know if I’m sold on it but it’s something to chew on.

 

I've owned a number of 57-60 F100's over the years, so I have a soft spot for this dash. Part of me wants to hate the idea of a stretched dash like you're proposing, but at the same time, I really like the idea. Could end up very cool in a T where it stretches across the full dash width.
Would you sink/partial recess so that the bottom of the dash and the front top lip of the dash are both flush with the T dash surface? (Not sure if that makes sense), but it would angle the gauges upwards a little more and could give a unique look rather than flush with a top lip overhang.

 

Yeah I’m pretty back and forth about it. And yeah id have it more or less “flush” and full side to side.

When looking at it as a stock cab over unit I like it upside down with the over hang /hooded section at the bottom. But looking at the stretched version I think it matches the shape on the cowl top to well to flip over.

 

I like the stretched Idea.