Those who made new dashboards

[CR67rep]

Hey guys, I've been working on fixing various areas of my CR that annoy me, removed the dash to do a serious wiring rework and ended up changing up some switches and locations. My dash has a wood face that is attached to the original fiberglass dash piece. Is this how most were done? It's a real PITA to mount switches and such due to the thickness of the combined materials. Everything requires being bored down with a forestner bit in order to get the switches through. Looking for examples of anyone who has replaced theirs. I'm thinking of going with a metal unit since I have access to sheet metal pretty readily and making an MDF or similar frame to go behind it. Any suggestions or thoughts would be appreciated!

[HI Cobra]

Mine just had the fiberglass dash with black covering. I haven't seen many CR's
with a wood dash. It is yours, so feel free to do what you want to with it, especially if it makes it easier with the switches, gages, etc.

[CR67rep]

I'm thinking whoever originally built mine boogered up the fiberglass and decided to fix it by facing it with wood. I plan on using the current dash for this season and probably work on making a new one over the course of a few months. I see people talk about looking in their albums to see pictures of things they've done but I haven't been able to figure out how to find said albums.

[MaSnaka]

Cr,
Click on the little camera icon under the user's name. That should take you to their photo galleries. I have a wood dash, came with the car when I bought it. I'm a carpenter by trade and really like the look. It is a 1" thick solid piece of cherrywood. Check it out in my gallery. If all the Cobras were identical that would be boring. Make it yours.

John

[CR67rep]

Thanks MaSnaka! I knew it would be something simple. Sadly the builder painted over what would have been a nice wood grain. I would like to add the glove box when I make a new one just to have a place for documents. I've seen some pretty radical dashes with a little google search. I'm assuming you have to bore out the back of your dash to get switches and such through?

[MaSnaka]

Switches yes...gauges no. Seems to me using your existing dash as a template it could be a fun project with favorable results. Upside is you can look at your handiwork every time you drive your car.

John

[CR67rep]

MaSnaka your dash looks awesome. How did you attach the dash to the car? My existing dash uses 3 carriage bolts from the cowl bar into the top of the fiberglass lip, I would assume I could use L brackets and the existing carriage bolts.

[MaSnaka]

CR,
The dash attaches with (I think four could be three) small "L" brackets at the top connected to the cowl. There is a metal strut connecting the bottom near the center.