Dash pads

65ChargerDart said

I didn't watch the upholstery shop do it, but I don't believe it was all that difficult for someone who does that work professionally. It took me forever to have the paint store to have the dye mixed to match gold poly, and it was the same store that mixed the paint for the interior gold poly and spring yellow paint for my car!

Maybe you could get a recommendation for a quality upholstery shop from a local street rodder or classic car enthusiast. In my experience, upholstery work is like paintwork, if done poorly once, you'll end up paying twice to have it done properly.

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In post #8 cosigs post. The bottom one is a Plymouth one. getting the 2 grooves in it is hard to do even if you skin it like yours with no foam padding since you have to "push into the groove with no stretch whatsoever or it will lift out of that area. The dart just has the ends (and center inside curve for the speaker)to worry about and they do pull away slightly no matter what glue you use. I help recover 60's Lincolns twin dash pads and see the pull away happen almost every time, sometimes it's almost immediately, sometimes it's many months to years, but it'll pull unless vacuum formed. I'm looking for a really good dash pad from a plymouth with the lines in it in good shape one to get a casting off of in order to redo one of my friends 65 Plymouth convertibles he wants to show. If I can get my armrest pads working to my satisfaction, I'll then go on to the dash pads as a replacement pad.