Ok, I don’t want to WOW you guys and make you faint with full pics yet, and this stream is what did you do today, so let me share this. On the 87, my dash pad was shredded, absolutely impossible to salvage. I was in the scrapyard and I found an 88 that only had a couple cracks in it. A little bird told me if you grind out the cracks, and you carefully fill them in with hot melt glue, you can then sand the glue and make it straight. Being patient, which is not my long suit, it came out great. I realize that if I sprayed it, you could still see the repair places, so then I decided to roll it with a nappy roller with semi gloss rust oleum. That added a texture, and it looks fantastic, and it cost $3-4.
worst slot, 1/2” deep 1” wide crack:
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When I had the dash out, I always wondered what those two flat panels above the steering column were on either side. So I took them out and washed them. Did you guys know that there are gauges and a speedometer behind there?
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Well, totally charged up at this point, I had a can of that upside down mark the street bright orange paint. I sprayed it into a tuna fish can and used a Q-tip to recover the needles. New gauges for ten cents!
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