EK morphs into pillarless Coupe .

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Re: EK morphs into pillarless Coupe .

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Which model Chev dash are you trying to fit ? I have a 59/60 dash to put in my 2 door
I started with nothing and still have most of it left.


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haha yep and Ill nut out repositioning the wipers while Im there
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now you can put in a WB statesman dash :shock: (need that vomit emoticon again) :lol:
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ratbox wrote:now you can put in a WB statesman dash :shock: (need that vomit emoticon again) :lol:
a VK dash :? :shock:

I'm sure you will work something out Harko :)
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Great to see a car like that being brought back to life. geez, some rust in her there, mate

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Yeah , Star wars dash,..serious
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So today I pulled the same dash out of the 54 ,and looked at it and looked at the pieces and looked at it and considered the peices , Ive started welding the pieces back together :roll: so it seems its staying old school ,sorry Mick :wink:

Thanks Paul not much left now though .
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Needed some metal to form the new dash top so I took the skin off a 90 corolla bonnet , fair $*#@ dinkum I threw it away , There should be laws against using that tin but instead with all our years of wisdom we now create cars with plastic panels that still weigh more than a 57 chevy.

The bonnet metal would have the strength of a sheet of thick cardboard :cry:
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Harko wrote:Needed some metal to form the new dash top so I took the skin off a 90 corolla bonnet , fair $*#@ dinkum I threw it away , There should be laws against using that tin but instead with all our years of wisdom we now create cars with plastic panels that still weigh more than a 57 chevy.

The bonnet metal would have the strength of a sheet of thick cardboard :cry:
I've got two more old HQ doors if you need the thicker steel, Harko. :shock: :lol:

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Thanks Scotty much apreciated , Ive got an early Toyota crown bonnet here that will do the trick , nice thick maluable steel . :wink:
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Good to see your doing ya bit to deminish the pleague Harko..
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well I like to participate :)
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but now everybody knows you have part of a toyota in yor car :shock: :wink:
after fiddling around with my dash today they aren't made of very substantial material anyway, i'm not customising as such just some peanut put a guage cowl where the speaker grille was and brazed it to the dash and also cut the hole bigger :? as i'm not haveing a speaker there thought i might aswell just plate it, i'll use an old FB/EK door or bonnet :)
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I measured it with the micrometre today and there was bugger all difference in the thickness but the rolla bonnet is like tin.
So in all honesty I could use the Holden Nova (corolla) material but then Ive got the toyota accelerator pedal already too.
Im actually not biased to the older rice burners theyre built well , better than any bommodore.
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Some corollas are kinda cool. I built a rotary ke20 not too long ago :oops:
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