Hot Rods Dashboard in the Model A, dare to be different.

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I had debated using the ‘52 DeSoto dash in the Model A, donated by the wagon I’m building. I started smoothing it up today, and decided I made the right choice.


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works well, I like it!

 

It is different but it works well! I like it

 

I’m digging it

 

Looks Good and one of a kind!

 

Look'n good!

 

It's got a Desoto heart, why not a Desoto think center to go with it.
What do you think about blending into the tops of the doors a tad?

 

I am truly a master at drawing with a mouse on the arm of my recliner.

 

That would look great

 

me likey
fabricator john
miss you dad

 

Looks good to me also......start a new tread !

 

My 53 Chrysler doors aren't blended. I guess DeSoto was the same. But I've owned early 50s Buicks. The ends of the dash and doors were blended real nice. Other GMs, too, I think. The Buick piece on the doors is removable and I think pretty easily adapted to other cars. If you thought about doing that.

 

Hmmm. I do have an extra door skin and a trunk lid and liner panel I could cut up to make them. It's just a matter of gluing bits together!

 

What real Hot Rods are all about, creativity .... I love it.

 

Ok, door garnish blended into the dash more. It does look better.


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I agree! The blend into the doors is definitely the right move...

 

Blended.
Fared.
Wrap-around.
Nice.

 

Now your cooking with ***! er gas.

 

I like it a lot. I wouldn't mind seeing more pics of your wood bracing, how about the trunk?

 

Mopar meets Model A, very cool !

 

Very nice. I have the exact same dash waiting for my Model A coupe. Scored it out of a boneyard for $50, gauges and all.

 

Brian, going back to this car you have proven in the past that thinking outside the norm has always proved you had the right idea! HRP

 

Great touch! I love originality!

Years ago I went to the Seattle roadster show (when they still held it) and somebody with a wicked sense of something had put all the 'traditional' '32 Ford hi-boys in a row for display. All well-built cars, different owners, some detail differences, but so alike it looked like a showroom displaying your 'options'... 'Which color would you prefer sir? And wheel choice?'... LOLOL..

 

I like it a lot !!!!! ,but I'm very parshel,as that is the same type custom dash I put in my Henry J,back in 1960.

 

There, I fixed it...


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Looks awesome

 

It's still early and not to in any way to take away from the design put forward by Bandit you could just carry the panel straight back parallel to the dash perhaps meeting and carrying onto the seat...

Just giving a second plausible option...great stuff going on in your playground @flynbrian48

 

Here’s what it looks like. There’s a 3” wide strip of wood bonded th the panel below the trunk, a 3/4” strip gl***ed into the top of the body at the back of the ****pit, and a 4” wide piece gl***ed to the catwalk panel. That is braced to to the top of the ****pit and the bulkhead as well.



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Cool stuff, what fills the gap above the dash? Never had an A, not sure if there is something to modify or if you plan on making something.