Creative Uses for the "Fasten Belts" light...?

[3elements]

Has anybody out there come up with a creative use for the Fasten Seat Belts dash sign? Changed the wording? Made it a shift light? Rigged it to display your radio or ipod info?

[jmon0261]

People have made it into a digital clock.

Once on ebay there was an outside temperature read out.

Wish I had bought it.

A digital compass is an idea also.

[wegweiser]

use the hole for installation of a Triumph TR6 wrinkle finish slim metal ashtray for coins, etc?

I've often thought about this, as a period looking alternative to electrical gizmos.

paul wegweiser

[Mike Self]

a 3 gauge pod atop the dash (oil press, oil temp and volts)--a much better place for extra gauges than the console, as you don't have to look away from the road to see 'em at a glance. The base is screwed to the dash using the existing holes, and the gauge pod is velcroed (!) to the base. Been working just fine since 1988/9 or so...

mike

[Grover]

I played with the wording in mine and changed it to "Giddyup", sort of a random slogan of mine. Sorry for the crappy resolution in the photo.

[2002Targa]

I ran some wires from the turn signals and took the blinker arrows out of some car in a wrecking yard and made blinkers. Never took any pics though.

[BillWilliams]

(nt)

[rogerspeed]

removed it and covered the hole with an appropriate vintage dash plaque

[visionaut]

I've got my alarm system visible flasher LED installed in it.

[golf73]

use the hole for installation of a Triumph TR6 wrinkle finish slim metal ashtray for coins, etc?

I've often thought about this, as a period looking alternative to electrical gizmos.

paul wegweiser

That's probably what Charles Runyan from the Roadster Factory would recommend, perhaps he should add it to his lengthly email updates and catalog descriptions (the ashtray may be one part that they're not backordered on)

[CharlieG]

use the hole for installation of a Triumph TR6 wrinkle finish slim metal ashtray for coins, etc?

I've often thought about this, as a period looking alternative to electrical gizmos.

paul wegweiser

http://www.zeni.net/trf/TR6-250GC/224.php?s_wt=1280&s_ht=800

Interesting. My dash is already cracked around the seat belt light anyway, probably not too big a sin to put a little more of a hole in it.

-Charlie

[PorpShow]

I was thinking it would be a great place for a radar detector remote display.

[Russell74Fjord]

mine holds the remote receiver unit from my BEL radar detector and on the side the flashing red LED from the car alarm. I'll see if I can get a photo and post,

[Harv]

I don't have one on my car because it's a 69. If I did have one I would make it a bar graph readout for a wide band O2 sensor.

John