What did you do with your truck today, Part 3

[mr48chev]

I actually made a deal for the piece I need for my dash for my 48.

This has been kind of a secret squirrel thing with me but without telling what it is out of the top photo shows the piece the guy cut out and is sending me to replace the piece I cut out of my dash when I was 19 in 1966 with the screwball idea that I was going to put in a varnished hardwood dash that looked like what was in 66 GTOs at the time.

I had saved this dash in the shed ever since I took it out of the car in the late 70's early 80's and put a complete dash out of a donor car that had sat upside down behind the old mechanics shop in Bickleton Wa Across from the Bluebird cafe. We went up with my buddy's rollback truck and winched it on the truck still upside down and strapped it down and went across the street to get some coffee because it was seriously cold that day. I stripped the parts off that body for my car and then sold the hulk to a friend of his from Canada who paid him good money to haul it to Canada. It might be running around BC with a Carson top on it these days.

I'm amazed at how much I hacked out of that old dash. I got a nice instrument panel and rebuilt 6 volt radio from a guy in Bend Oregon a couple of years ago for it and this piece will let me get the dash together.

I'll let folks figure out what it is out of on their own though.