Stop in for a cup of coffee

What cha doing to your dash? I'd just like to get past 50 degrees. In the next 14 days it only makes it there twice, lows in 30's 40's but at least daylight savings is close!
Well honestly, been working a couple different custom bezel ideas for about the last year. The original concept ended up being too much trouble to get consistent results. That concept was using a pair of 1963 New Yorker tail light bezels as gauge bezels . I spent a small fortune in silicone to made a set of molds from the pot metal tailight bezels. The molds turned out perfect. But the fiberglass resin idea that I tried to cast out of the molds proved to be very inconsistent. I would get HUGE air pockets between the layers and ultimately, the things would crack after a few weeks of temperature changes. Mainly cause they ended up being so dang thick. I finally got two of them to be workable, but then as I sat there looking at them, I realized they just were too large. the 8 in diameter didn’t look as good once the gauges were in.

So in my junk yard trip a couple weeks back, I found a new idea I’m gonna try out.