Actually I just finshed some work on my dash and it was originally white
painted metal with a burgundy vinyl around the trim area. I beleive
that at least the color was original the vinyl seems just to wierd.
Anywasy I painted the metal flat balck since I am restoring the wood
dash that was in place when I bought it.
I the white the under wood color?
--
Leif Johnston
'62 TR4 - CT3729L (maybe a daily driver one day??)
Fredericksburg, VA
Mark Clark wrote:
>
> Can't help on the vinyl, but as to the dash color, I had the chance to
> look over an unrestored 1962 TR4 two years ago, and the dash was white.
> Rather surprised me, since the dash on my '63 is black - given my car's
> history who knows what the original color was! The car was lovely, with
> nothing (and I do mean nothing!) altered from its original state. Fellow
> who had owned it bought it new, picked it up from the ship when it came to
> the USA, drove it about 20,000 mile in eight years, and then parked it due
> to health problems. The fellow who bought it had only to replace some
> rubber items and brake parts, wax it, and put it on the road. It looked
> so good my car wanted to go and hide somewhere (the Tiggermobile is a
> rolling restoration, to put it in the best light possible).
>
> Anyway, it is all a matter of taste - if you want to be in shows I
> assume there are guidelines out there as to what your car should be, and I
> assume you'll hear from folks on the list who know more about it than I.
> If you plan to just drive the car, make the dash the color you like -
> frankly, I like my dash being black, since I found the white dash of the
> unrestored car I rather odd.
>
> ______________________________
> Dr. Mark Clark
> Oregon Institute of Technology
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