Tri 5 Lower Dash Extension

[hotrod1]

Lets see what you guys did for a lower dash extension. Pics Please. I am sure that there are some very cool ideas out there, and I would like to see them.

[ChuckDriver]

Here's a few I saved over the years.

[Speedbumpauto]

What I did. Wanted the glove box and couldn't figure out how to get it to open/close with something under it that looked right.

[hotrod1]

These are all great! We need more please!!!

[_Ogre]

look in my build

edit: forget it. you only want tri5 dashes
tri5 is a car design, 3 years of the same basic car
55-59 cabs are all the same, you could always use five5

[mgchevyparts]

Originally Posted by _Ogre

look in my build

edit: forget it. you only want tri5 dashes
tri5 is a car design, 3 years of the same basic car
55-59 cabs are all the same, you could always use five5

Exactly, the term Tri5 applies to 55 56 57 Chevy cars not trucks. Truck platform was 55 56 57 58 59
No big deal but just one of those little mis-used things that bugs me

[Dan in Pasadena]

Ford guys have a cow when somrone refers to the Tri five Chevys as "shoeboxes". They claim exclusive right to use that term on what? '49-50 Fords.

Personally, I'm not a Ford guy though I like certain Fords. So screw 'em!

[Dan in Pasadena]

Anyone know if someone is producing these dash extensions, or are they all custom made?

[hotrod1]

If tri five just refers to cars, then I am mistaken. I was told that it refers to 55, 56, and 57. I would like to see 55, 56, 57. 58. and 59 trucks.

[_Ogre]

Originally Posted by _Ogre

look in my build

Again

[hotrod1]

Ogre

Your looks great just like the rest of your truck. I imagine that you spent a lot of time building everything out of fiberglass. From a aesthetics perspective, it was worth it.

[_Ogre]

Unless your an extraordinary metal worker, fiberglass is a lot easier to form. Hard to post pics from my tablet, look at how the ends of the fascia curve to the dash. Easy to do with cardboard and mailing tube

[Old Crow]

Originally Posted by Dan in Pasadena

Ford guys have a cow when somrone refers to the Tri five Chevys as "shoeboxes". They claim exclusive right to use that term on what? '49-50 Fords.

Personally, I'm not a Ford guy though I like certain Fords. So screw 'em!

Those Ford guys are weird indeed. They got all upset when I called my '61 F-100 a "step side". Sorry, I grew up when all those '50's trucks were called step sides, regardless of brand.
Besides, that thing of the side of the truck between the cab and the rear fender sure looks more like a step than a "flare" to me.

[ChuckDriver]

From an earlier model.

[Dan in Pasadena]

Reviving an ancient thread.

Any one now making under dash valances? Either commercially or custom making them for others?

[mr48chev]

I haven't seen anything that I took notice of.

Out in one of the sheds I have an under dash panel from a Ford Maverick of unknown year and unknown trim level. I think the car was on a piece of property that the guy I was working for at the time bought and I stripped some parts off some of the vehicles there before I called my friend who has a wrecking yard and has a hulk hauler license to come get all of the vehicles before my boss had a guy bury them with a bulldozer. It saved my boss from paying the guy a few hundred dollars to dig a hole and push them in it and cover them up. There was a pretty solid international travelall in the mix and my buddy probably made enough profit off it let alone the scrap value of everything else he hauled out of there.

I'll see if I can dig that panel out of the shed and see if it is still worth looking at as that was over 25 years ago but the idea was to put it in my 48.