Very rare early 28 dash

[mrtexas]

Here are a few shots of the AR dash I just bought:

No indentation for bottom screw holes, cut rather than pressed


Bottom screw holes 1/4 wider apart


No cut off on top


I've compared it with an original later dash. I'll have some work to do! I had modified my gas tank to fit a later dash. No one here could answer my question if the bottom screw holes were wider apart! Thanks to Gary Nelson of BC(British Columbia) and Fordbarn for selling me several AR parts this included and early Canadian motor mounts. http://fordbarn.com/forum/showthread...light=canadian

[BRENT in 10-uh-C]

Wish I knew you were looking for one as I purchased two at Hershey last Fall and then had them correctly plated. I will use one for a current project and so I have one of the non-clipped and one of the clipped, --both that are the early non-countersunk screw holes.

[2manycars]

I have one of those, but it has been replated in chrome.

[Jim Mason]

How much do you want for the clipped top machined countersunk panel? pm me. thanks jim

[Charles Reese]

Please post a close up photo of the exterior of the bottom screw holes on the 'punched' panel. I suspect you will find it has a very slight (& uneven) chamfer around the face side of the holes. I believe the early ones were first punched and then a quick chamfer (for oval head screw) by a separate operation. Later ones had both done in one operation, thus the better indent. The chamfer on mine, and others I have seen, is very shallow almost to the point of being imperceptible … the oval head screw fits poorly!

Note the white swills in the photos is a coat of paste wax to protect the parts during restoration.

[mrtexas]

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[pooch]

What does the cutoff on top look like?

My panel here is no indents on bottom screws.

[brito36]

Very nice find !! The really early instrument panels also used a different style screw that was unique to these early panels.

[Charles Reese]

Originally Posted by brito36

Very nice find !! The really early instrument panels also used a different style screw that was unique to these early panels.

Can you post a photo of this unique screw plz? Specs would be useful as well

[FL&WVMIKE]

I found this thread to be very interesting. I had never heard of the non-countersunk hole dashes. I looked in my stash of '28-'29 dashes, and found that I had three of them !
I am advertising these for sale in "THE SWAP MEET" Section. They are all clipped.
Does anybody need one ?
Two have a lot of original nickle on them and one has surface rust, but no pits.
They are pictured in "THE SWAP MEET".
Thank you,
MIKE (mikeburch)

[mrtexas]

They aren't so rare if they are clipped.

[Tudortomnz]

My late '29 Canadian Tudor [ it is the original dash to the car] has the non indent bottom holes & non cut top.
This may well be a supplier difference.
I see that Pooch has the same type on his Aussie assembled [ Canadian chassis] car ; it is likely Canada used only one supplier for the instrument panel.