Daniel Gibson
True Classic
What a shock...radio is dead. At least it lights up!
Some years ago there was a CAD design floating around the interwebs that you could use to replicate this panel (and the instruments side too). Maybe someone can confirm I'm not imaging this?No sign of the carb yet, so let us do some work on the dash. The passenger side kinda looks like garbage.
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Comes off pretty easy. The speaker looks ok, but it started shredding when I touched it. It is croaked.View attachment 32322
Here is the radio. Pretty nice little unit. Reversible polarity so it will work on positive ground cars. Faceplate is kinda pitted, which is a bummer. Since I repair vintage electronics for my job, it should not be too tough to get it working. Or maybe I can find some cool VW Sapphire radio...I have a bunch of them.
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Cardboard junk! I have some wood left over from the interior to make this panel from. Should be fun!View attachment 32324
I am sure there is, it was likely on the Yahoo group, I know a few people have a download of all the files from that site before Yahoo trashed everything.Some years ago there was a CAD design floating around the interwebs that you could use to replicate this panel (and the instruments side too). Maybe someone can confirm I'm not imaging this?
Some years ago there was a CAD design floating around the interwebs that you could use to replicate this panel (and the instruments side too). Maybe someone can confirm I'm not imaging this?
Maybe someday. I just really couldn’t bear putting shelf paper on there.What, no fake woodgrain?
Thanks! I would have loved those if they were available. What did they use originally?I elected to use oil impregnated bronze but the end result should be the same. Nice job.
Most excellent info. Now the next guy trying to put one of these together has the scoop.A little late to the party but here are the bushings and screws for the hinge repair using stock hinge pins. This quantity will do two cars. I bought this stuff from McMaster-Carr