First Project: Dash Board Sheetmetal

 The dash was actually in pretty good shape.

Several holes were drilled under the original radio control head area. The size lead me to believe they were probably for toggle switches. I believe this car did not originally come with a radio because there was no evidence of antenna mounting holes on the cowl and a radio delete cover bearing the Plymouth logo was in the pile of parts that came with the car. You can see in the photo above a light spot on the dash where the delete cover was covering the radio control holes and the two mounting holes for it on each side of where the frequency indicator would have been.

After sand blasting the dash I welded up all of the unwanted holes and ground them smooth. It took very little hammer and dolly work to get everything back to it's original shape. The three large holes I left untouched in the photo above are for the windshield regulator (top center), the cigarette lighter and ashtray (bottom left and right) which I would later use for air conditioning vents.