I originally wanted to swap in a newer dash from a miata but I don't have the patience right now for that big of a project.

I'm considering a tweed dash. Just a simple pull out and recover with tweed.

My only concern is the FB dash has some pretty tight curves. Has anyone succesfully done this ?

 

i saw a FB dash with suade on it once. it had green glitter paint and tripple gold daytons too.... >

 

kind of old school. ive seen leather, its kinda 80's and the austrailians do it too

 

Yes, I've always liked the looks and feel of tweed. I loved the early 1990 looks of custom trucks. They usually always used Tweed. It's cheap and easy to work with.

 

dont forget the hydraulics I do remember that pix from a few years back.

 

Wow, a blast from the past. I remember buying Minitruckin all the time when I was customizing my 1979 Datsun King Cab bullet side PU when I was in high school, and it seemed like every issue was filled with pictures of nice clean custom trucks filled with tweed. I agree with you and I always like how tweed looked (when done right). I'd love to see what it looks like if you decide to do it.

I was considering wrapping my dash with some type of fabric for a while, but have since changed my mind and am now going to build a new dash out of carbon fiber. I've got a spare dash in my spare room, along with many other interior parts that I'm working on cleaning up and getting them ready to make molds from.

 

i did my truck dash and headliner in black suede. looks sweet.

 

Yes, that's exactly want I planned. Cover the dash, headliner, panels and whatever else. You know, just give it a nice clean look. Hell, Tweed is $9 per yard so it's dirty cheap.

 

I'd go for some of that electrostatic-gun stuff, thats commonly used on race and rally cars.

 

What is that ?

 

doo eet!

as an aside i totally dig the plaid they used on the 79-80's its super tacky, but cool

 

Victoria British er.... "Black Dragon" sells a dash cover for first gens, its made of the same type material as stock, its cut to fit and it like sticks on or something. A friend had one and it looked nice except if you looked close around the edges. perhaps someone who's actually used one can comment on it.

 

I had a 70 Ford LTD in high school. I re-did the dash with black fake fur.


Honestly.

 

suede can be difficult to work around tight curves, you got to take your time with it, but it looks nice. low low's generally are velour. suede looks much classier. as far as colored burlap...i mean tweed, i never have cared for it, but hey, we all got our own taste. if you like the tweed, i would do that, it should be a lot easier to lay smooth. another option is called heat formable vinyl, i use it on custom fiberglass audio video installs here at the shop. you heat it with a heat gun as you lay it and it stretches and conforms to curves.

 

I have one of those. It was over the dash when I purchased the car. It looks like it's been there for quite some time (or just poorly installed) since the few spots that it was attached have come loose so it's just sitting over the dash. I realized it was a dash cap on my drive home from where I got it from when it moved some when I bumped it with my hand. Although I would probably never buy one myself, it does do a really good job of looking stock and being hard to notice as a repair part, so for anyone who is looking for a cheap easy way to make an old cracked dash look new, this could be a very good option for you. The one thing I recommend for anyone who plans to go with this option is that you should take your time when you install it. Make sure and use a good adhesive and make sure and glue it all the way around all the edges so that even over time it will still stay in place. When you look close it's the edges that will give it away, so if you make sure and glue it very well around the vents and the top and bottom edges then it should look really nice.

 

It's called Flocking, You spray the dashboard with glue and blast small fibres onto it with an electrostatic generating gun. The electrostating makes the fibres "stand up" on the dashboard.

 

You guys are talking about something different than I am.

This is a interior covered in Tweed. I want something, clean and classic.





Or this one, but he's got ostrich inserts.

 

oooo that looks nice

 

This isn't PIMP MY RIDES. Some people just have god awful taste.

 

I think the first one looks nice.

 

it does look nice, the first one's my fav. i think it'd be a pita to keep clean tho, and i can only imagine the second one :P

 

Tweed is easy to keep clean.

Alot of new cars came in Tweed. Heck, even the stock Cosmo came in Tweed.

 

How about a snake skinned gauge pod ?

 

I have too agree..... Tweed is nice if done right... CHEAP....Easy to clean... Just vacum
No shiny stuff to spray on dash.....

L8R

 

That's just wrong