On my 67, it only had small holes for each bolt so it is easy to weld up with no concerns of altering it's crash integrity properties. I too have the original pad but it is cracked up bad.
Bottom line is it's your car,do it the way that suits you and what you like,many ways to do things,thats how new things come to be,but keep us posted on how you did yours...
Yep, that's me.
My wife asked if I was going to restore my car when I got it, and I told her that it's not a particularly valuable year so industrial functional would be the direction.
I don't post everything I do mostly due to the "That won't work" crowd but I figured I would bring this up due to the amount of no dash pad cars out there.
Wait till you see the guage pod I fabbed for the tach, A/F and fuel guage. :-D
It's somewhat beyond what most do for guages.
I think there are, but man they are costly and I like it a lot better without it.
Mine was there, but even the foam was almost gone.
I considered using that foam insulation spray to rebuild the basic structure and then do soft foam and cover it with black vynl but the longer it was off the better I liked it.
