david ferry Posted July 22, 2018 Report Share Posted July 22, 2018 Hi. To help with an ongoing racecar build, does anyone have a spare RHD dashboard they would be willing to sell? If you do, or if you know of one, do please let me know via personal message. Thanks David Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rhino_mac Posted July 22, 2018 Report Share Posted July 22, 2018 Drop johnhodges on here a pm. He might have one spare Quote Link to post Share on other sites
david ferry Posted July 22, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2018 Thanks. Done. Fingers crossed! David Quote Link to post Share on other sites
david ferry Posted July 23, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2018 Sadly, John Hodges (like me) only has LHD available. Back to my search please. David Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rhino_mac Posted July 23, 2018 Report Share Posted July 23, 2018 Ah. Sorry about that. Shame as John is a very easy guy to deal with! Good luck in your search. Have you tried the usual suspects? Revingtons etc - they had one last time I was looking but they were very pricey. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BrianC Posted July 24, 2018 Report Share Posted July 24, 2018 If it's for a race car then I guess you don't need an original. I have a custom dash which was in my TR3A when I bought it in 1977. I suspect the car had some competition history, probably as a rally car, as the dash has no glove-box cut-out and was fitted with a lot of extra switches and gauges. I still have this so if it is any use to you I can dig it out and take some photos. I couldn't bear to scrap it so you are welcome to it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
david ferry Posted July 24, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2018 Brian, That would be good. The car needs to look reasonably like a standard car inside to comply with series regs. The pics will be helpful. David Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BrianC Posted July 24, 2018 Report Share Posted July 24, 2018 I will try to get a couple of photos tomorrow. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BrianC Posted July 25, 2018 Report Share Posted July 25, 2018 I'm not sure if this will work as well as Photobucket used to, but if not PM me your email address.It's aluminium but vinyl is scruffy so will need replacing but you would need to recover it anyway as the small holes won't be where you need them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lebro Posted July 25, 2018 Report Share Posted July 25, 2018 Make a good cheese grater ! All those holes could be filled up with not too much of a problem. I mig'ed round patches into about 6 extra holes in my dash before re-covering it. Bob. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
david ferry Posted July 26, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2018 Hi Brian, Thanks for the pics. I think I’ll keep looking for an original dash as the car does need to have a correct looking dashboard. David Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BrianC Posted July 27, 2018 Report Share Posted July 27, 2018 No problem David - good luck with finding a RHD dash (I sold 2 spares to someone that had been searching for a very long time). I've often wondered why a previous owner had gone to the trouble to make a special dash so early in the car's life as it is a UK RHD car so not a conversion. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
johnhodges Posted July 27, 2018 Report Share Posted July 27, 2018 Hi David Or just a thought you could convert a LHD one and as it's a race car, blank off the glove box and speed/rev counter holes, cut the holes for the speedo/rev counter on the right side, together with the steering wheel recess, and either make a dummy glove box, or leave it blank, with additional instruments like a rally car after all the centre instrument panel is the same. All recovered in vinyl should look fine. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
david ferry Posted September 25, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2018 Hi folks. I'm still looking! David Quote Link to post Share on other sites
openroad Posted September 25, 2018 Report Share Posted September 25, 2018 Morning David, I know of one, i will put him in touch with you. Hens Teeth ! Cheers, Conrad. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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