I too am re-installing a dash... any good hints or suggestions?
Bert
> From: Richard Kinas <rkinas@ctinet.net>
> To: "'Chevy Trucks'" <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
> Subject: [oletrucks] Truck stampings
> Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 21:19:11 -0500
> Reply-to: Richard Kinas <rkinas@ctinet.net>
> To all,
> I thought I'd just share an observation with everyone, with the latest talk
> about TF Fenders interchanging. One of the previous owners of my 59 Chevy
> butchered the radio section of the dash. I could not stand another day
> looking at that mess, so I decided to cut it out and weld in a replacement.
> I found a 56 donner cab, which was so eaten away with rust, it would
> crumple like tin foil when you touched it, but it had a perfect dash. What
> luck! Well when I got the dash section home and was prepping it for
> installation, I noticed a remarkable difference in sharpness of the creases
> around the glove box. From what I saw, it looks like the dies used to
> produce the dash panels were just about wore out by 1959. I was very
> surprised by the amount of difference in appearance. This is one of those
> things you would never notice looking at one or the other, but comparing
> them side-by-side it becomes very noticeable. Given my observations, I
> would rather have an earlier cab no matter what year of TF truck I was
> building.
>
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