Dash updates from MVP

[Highnote1]

Someone else may have posted this recently but was getting impatient so messaged MVP. Cant get here soon enough!
 

[Leucadian]

Is MVP using Vintage Dashes as a supplier?  They just posted a photo of their 2nd prototype.  

[Highnote1]

Hmm. I would not think so automatically but that would be interesting. I assumed they make their stuff. 

[Dudeland]

Loosing hope.... 

[Highnote1]

29 minutes ago, Dudeland said:

Loosing hope.... 

No!!! 😂

I’m about to send mine to paint so gonna pull the dash and give a fix a try with some flex seal paste I saw someone else use online. Worst case scenario it will be more solid to take the plastic cap I already have for it. I don’t want to take the glass out twice with fresh paint! Come on MVP. Don’t cost a grand! 😂😂

[Dudeland]

3 hours ago, Highnote1 said:

No!!! 😂

I’m about to send mine to paint so gonna pull the dash and give a fix a try with some flex seal paste I saw someone else use online. Worst case scenario it will be more solid to take the plastic cap I already have for it. I don’t want to take the glass out twice with fresh paint! Come on MVP. Don’t cost a grand! 😂😂

LOL. 

 

My dash was really (really) trashed when I got the car, so I am not shedding any tears when I put mounts on it. 

 

I am about to cut out the lighter hole to mount an automotive rocker switch sized mount for some electronics in it and a pull for the fire suppression system.

 

I respect a good looking dash, but I give myself permission to be pragmatic about what I want to do with my car.  I am not building it for anyone else but me.  I am building it the best and safest way that I can with the underlying goal of having fun, and not taking it so seriously, embracing my inner Wabi Sabi. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[JohnS]

On 4/17/2024 at 8:04 AM, Dudeland said:

embracing my inner Wabi Sabi. 

👍

[JsnPpp]

My dash is somewhat cracked and I'm in the midst of prepping for exterior paint by mid-year.

 

Unless the new dash is sub-$1K AND available for when I reassemble (Aug?), which I highly doubt it will be, then thats the way it is, no new dash for me.

 

I'm ok with a few cracks, I'm not perfect why expect the car to be 🙂 

[Highnote1]

Mine is absolutely shredded! I cannot put it back in the car unless it is under a cap, which I have done before…but a new sub 800 or so dash….life changing! 😂

[JohnS]

2 hours ago, JsnPpp said:

I'm ok with a few cracks, I'm not perfect why expect the car to be 🙂 

Yes, embracing the Wabi Sabi.  Very Good! 😊

 

 

 

Edited April 19 by JohnS

[JsnPpp]

@JohnS Looks great to me. And at this stage I'll take a running driving car over the parts pile I have in the garage any day. I have similar cracks. All good. A dash cover and away we go!

 

Jason

[Zak]

I hope they decide to make three piece dash.It is the most economical and sensible approach.

[AceAndrew]

^ I tried to explain that to the other fellows while they were in the data-collection faze.  Apparently someone else they were talking to convinced them otherwise.

[Zak]

On 4/20/2024 at 11:56 PM, AceAndrew said:

^ I tried to explain that to the other fellows while they were in the data-collection faze.  Apparently someone else they were talking to convinced them otherwise.

 

Too bad, they excluded a lot of potential buyers.

[mike472]

Checked out "Justdashes.com" after seeing them on a Jay Leno episode.  They will do your 02 dash for about 2800.  Completely new skin vacuformed over your old foam after it's been repaired.  Beautiful work.  Saw some dashes on their website they had done for 02's and a CS.  I got mine done locally with my interior guy Brimar Upholstory for $700 with great result.  It had a few cracks and a hole I drilled in it to install a guage cluster to the right of the instrument binnacle were repaired and the texture was matched.  He then painted it with a vinyl paint which looks great.