Interior is almost done

davelacourse · Poncho Master!

Interior is almost done

Astro Jet · Poncho Master!

What does it say on the glove box door?

davelacourse · Poncho Master!

Astro Jet wrote:

What does it say on the glove box door?

(actually it's on the radio speaker grille, the glove box door is in the center under the NOS chrome radio delete plate)

Dave

-- Edited by davelacourse at 16:09, 2009-02-24

-- Edited by davelacourse at 16:10, 2009-02-24

67HEAVEN · Poncho Master!

Dave,

You're doing great work. Congratulations. Cheque-book buys are never as satisfying as do-it-yourself projects.

You're on the home stretch.
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davelacourse · Poncho Master!

67HEAVEN wrote:

Dave,

You're doing great work. Congratulations. Cheque-book buys are never as satisfying as do-it-yourself projects.

You're on the home stretch.

Thank you. And you're exactly right about satisfaction, getting to this:

when it started like this:

is immensely satisfying.

Oh, and the 'to be done' half is on the list for tomorrow, I already scraped off 50+ years of crud, filled up half a coffee can from that side

Dave

jmont64 · Canadian Poncho Superstar!

Good job Dave. Love that speedo. Great looking dash. Keep it up.

Canadian Poncho · A Poncho Legend!

Great stuff Dave. It's always gratifying to be on the home stretch!

Todd

loud · Addicted!

nice job

2drpost · Uber Guru

looks great dave! nice to see the 3 pedals too! wink

Beaumont4008 · Uber Guru

Thats one nice looking interior Dave, There is nothing better than a nice clean and well done interior and your is defenatly that.

Ian

-- Edited by Beaumont4008 at 19:04, 2009-02-24

Taylor55 · Poncho Master!

Hi Dave you are really coming along with the 56. Nice job. The undercarriage looks to be in really good shape and without a couple of hundred pounds of extra thick tar like undercoating! i really like the interior with the matching silver streaks.

Al

kelico · Poncho Master!

looks really great!! keep the photos comin'

59poncho · Poncho Master!

lookin real good. i have the same 50 yr.old crud too, fun stuff!!

speelman1958 · Addicted!

looks very good, I will have to tackle the 53 + year old crud one day as well, just not this year, I too am working on the interior at this point. but my garage is still too cold!!!!!

Rolilk · Guru

I like it. I also like the rpm guage and where you put it. It gives me that kinda two lane black top feel about it

4SPEED427 · A Poncho Legend!

I too love the dash picture. It sure makes our car dashes of today (or even total interiors) look sad. The style, flair, whatever you want to call it is gone now.

davelacourse · Poncho Master!

Rolilk wrote:

I like it. I also like the rpm guage and where you put it. It gives me that kinda two lane black top feel about it

Thanks. I always liked that Two Lane Blacktop 55 Chevy. I thought about mounting the tachometer on the top of the dash, like that car:

but I couldn't bear to drill holes in the dash. I decided on placement for several reasons:
1. Back in the 60's, the common place for a Sun Tach was on the steering column.
2. True drag race cars put them up on top of the dash so it was more in the line of sight, but street/strip cars didn't (for a variety of reasons, including the fact that some LEOs could hassle you for 'blocking vision') and mine is more street/strip than pure drag race.
3. Sun tachs come with a mounting bracket that's curved for the steering column and using a padded (with electrical tape) hose clamp makes for a nice neat installation.
4. Angling it a bit made the wiring fit very nicely through the slot in the chrome cover that used to have the heater controls under it (I removed all that, hey, don't need heat in Florida!), and again, we often angled them in the 60's so as to not interfere with other gauges.
5. I'm hoping the angled installation will help disguise the awkward GM of Canada offset placement of the steering column (to fit the Chevy chassis) in the Pontiac dash (if you look closely at this on a 55-56 Canadian Pontiac, you'll see what I mean).

Dave

davelacourse · Poncho Master!

speelman1958 wrote:

looks very good, I will have to tackle the 53 + year old crud one day as well, just not this year, I too am working on the interior at this point. but my garage is still too cold!!!!!

Your interior should be very close to mine (major differences are (1) 55 gauges have black background instead of silver, (2) the horizontal trim pieces have a different pattern in them, (3) your knobs were black while 56 were ivory) - if you have any questions, let me know, I had mine all apart so I know where all the hidden nuts and screws are:

And here's the crud from just one axle (it's a deep dish pie pan):

I hear you about the cold - I don't have that problme now

but when I lived in Minneapolis I'd rent a torpedo heater when I absolutely needed to work in the garage in the winter - and in Northern Illinois (not that much warmer than Canada) I insulated my garage and installed an LP gas wall-mounted heater with thermostat and everything. This time of year I am blessed with perfect weather so can work in the garage whenever I want (pretty much every day).

Dave

455gto · Poncho Master!

With all that crud your taking off. She'll run faster than before biggrin

RDubya · Poncho Master!

Nice work you're doing on the car!

speelman1958 · Addicted!

this is the only picture of my dash this far. seats, door panels have been redone since this photo. am waiting on windlace to arrive, and currently when warm enough - am replacing the window channels.

davelacourse · Poncho Master!

speelman1958 wrote:

this is the only picture of my dash this far. seats, door panels have been redone since this photo. am waiting on windlace to arrive, and currently when warm enough - am replacing the window channels.

Very nice! I like the coppery color of the car with white two-tone. I still have to do all my window fur channels, and windlace, and door seals, and vent window rubber, and ... always plenty to do!

Dave

427carl · A Poncho Legend!

davelacourse wrote:

mounting the tachometer on the top of the dash, like that car:

but I couldn't bear to drill holes in the dash. :
Tach was on the steering column.
2. True drag race cars put them up on top of the dash so it was more in the

Dave
I used to have the same problem, not wanting to drill the dash. My wife said, what difference does it make? you are going to sell it eventually! She was right I had it up on the dash, on my 72 Ventura and my 93 Sunbird RWD... My 2 Pontiacs, are going to have them on the dash fastened to a piece of flat steel, that fastens into the defroster grille..