DASH PADS

[cuda340]

  Am wondering if there is a difference in the dash pad on a air and non air car? Currently have a air car and am considering going non air and dont want to get dash pad restored to a air dash if there is not going to be air and there is a difference between the pads. This is on a cuda.....thanx

[Chryco Psycho]

Welcome  
 There is a difference in the Dash pads for A/C & non A/C cars ,extra vents for A/C
 Do not get the dash redone by Just Dashes , there work is bad  

[cudajim383]

If not getting dash done by "Just Dashes"....who do you suggest?  Have only seen theirs and "Year One".  Need my '70 'Cuda dash completed soon.

[cuda340]

  OK thank you. I thought there was a difference just wanted to make sure. As cudajim said who else does dashes besides Just Dashes and dashrestorations.com which is from Australia? Later......

[Chryco Psycho]

there is 1 more co. , can1t remeber the name right now though , but I will try to get it , or get the one you have repaired

[cudajim383]

Have you remembered where else to get pads???
Also since I am in a little rural town in Kentucky, what kind of place actually repairs dashes like ours?

[Chryco Psycho]

we have a local co named fibrenew That does a decent job of fixing them & other vinyl & plastic parts
 Iwill try to locate the other company

[cuda340]

am getting my dash pad redone from a guy that has them on ebay all the time. do a search for barracuda dash pads or challenger dash pads. from his feedback it sounds like everyone likes them.....will know in 3 to 4 weeks wehn i get mine back.....later

[Street_Challenged73]

Hey Cuda340, yeah, be sure to let us know what it looks like afterwards....Post some pics for us if you can too..

[cuda340]

Street_Charged69.... i will let ya know when i get it back....probably be 3 or 4 weeks as i mentioned earlier. i shipped it on friday so they should have it by this friday. there are pics on the ebay page but will try and get some also.....later

[RusTy/SE]

Has anyone besides CP had any dealings with Just Dashes ? I've had a few correspondences with them but haven't sent them any work yet. All the magazines seem to have either used thier services on various projects or written articles about the company, but it's the customers and thier $$$ that determines a service providers success or failure. I'm particularly curious about the plastic interior panel refurbishing they offer but i'd like to hear some other opinions (regarding this and other services) before plunking my hard earned pennies down. Like Paul Harvey says - what's the 'rest of the story' ?

[Pistol Gripper]

I just got back from a musclecar auction that had a 70 Challenger that had the dash redone by Just Dashes.  The color was a good match as was the grain on the vinyl, but the stitching was wavy.  Along the top front where there are 2 parallel lines of stitching, the distance between the lines varied up to 1/8", very uneven.  They paid $595 to have it done !

P.G.

[RusTy/SE]

ouch  

[Street_Challenged73]

Wow Pistol Gripper, that does suck!  There's a guy in the area who has a really nice '70 Challenger R/T that was just recently completed.  A friend of my fathers owns his own bodyshop and he did all the bodywork for this guy.  I stopped over one night to talk with him about my car.  Anyways, I looked into the interior and saw that it was pretty much flawless.  I looked to the dash and saw everything was perfect on that, too.  I asked my bodyman where the guy had the dash redone, he didn't remember the name, but it was excellent.  I guess the guy really paid for such a nice dash though; a cool $1,000.00 is what it cost him!!!

[Pistol Gripper]

What really sucks is how much the car went for.  It was originally a fairly uncommon 1970  318  3spd on the floor car.  It now is a 340 Auto.  The paint job looked nice, some bubbles on the top where the vinyl top used to be.  You could stick your finger in between the edge of the passenger door and the rear quarter ( kinda wide seam )  No exhaust tips ( I bought them earlier as parts ) No trunk mat, they sold it seperately too.  Missing one hood emblem.  Bad dash, interior nice otherwise.  $12K