rally dash woodgrain
Jim at DMT is great. I worked with him quite a bit when I was putting together the rallye dash conversion for my Duster. I wanted to have an overlay for the lower part of the gauges too, not just the uppers. He didn't have any bezels to use for a guide, so I shipped him some. Now he has the lower overlays for all the different rallye bezels too. Makes restoring a bezel MUCH easier, and with new ones costing over $500 and having one rechromed costing almost as much it's nice to be able to spruce one up yourself.
Here's some pictures of my dash. Mine has some modifications because I converted my '74 dash over to accept a rally dash. And it has carbon upper and lower overlays as my car is going more for a "pro-touring" vibe, no need to be stock with a '74 Duster wearing '71 Demon bodywork and sporting a converted rallye dash frame.
This is what I started with. It's ugly, but rallye dash bezels with cut or broken sections sell for cheap, so I collected a bunch of them. No point paying for a super nice one if the goal is to modify it.
This shows the big modification I did, fixing the radio cut out on my broken bezel by using a glove box piece and shortening the bezel in the process...
Painted, polished, and the lettering re-done with a silver paint pen
Finished product! Showing off my lower carbon overlay, Jim made that one special at my request as a thank you for providing the bezels to make a pattern off of. :D :thumbup: I have more pictures and a description of what I did on page 2 of my build thread, linked in my signature.
Jim at DMT is great. I worked with him quite a bit when I was putting together the rallye dash conversion for my Duster. I wanted to have an overlay for the lower part of the gauges too, not just the uppers. He didn't have any bezels to use for a guide, so I shipped him some. Now he has the lower overlays for all the different rallye bezels too. Makes restoring a bezel MUCH easier, and with new ones costing over $500 and having one rechromed costing almost as much it's nice to be able to spruce one up yourself.
Here's some pictures of my dash. Mine has some modifications because I converted my '74 dash over to accept a rally dash. And it has carbon upper and lower overlays as my car is going more for a "pro-touring" vibe, no need to be stock with a '74 Duster wearing '71 Demon bodywork and sporting a converted rallye dash frame.
This is what I started with. It's ugly, but rallye dash bezels with cut or broken sections sell for cheap, so I collected a bunch of them. No point paying for a super nice one if the goal is to modify it.
This shows the big modification I did, fixing the radio cut out on my broken bezel by using a glove box piece and shortening the bezel in the process...
Painted, polished, and the lettering re-done with a silver paint pen
Finished product! Showing off my lower carbon overlay, Jim made that one special at my request as a thank you for providing the bezels to make a pattern off of. :D :thumbup: I have more pictures and a description of what I did on page 2 of my build thread, linked in my signature.
