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Because it gets so hot down here in south Louisiana, and it is like that for most of the year, I will never find a good dash in any salvage yard. They are all cracked. I have been wanting to build one out of aluminum, but that is a lot of work, and I want it to look kind of OE, so I am still in the thought stage of this. I have also seen some custom work installing a dash from a 63 truck and blending it into a 400. I looked at a dash from a 42 Chevy truck, and could see this as a base, or good starting point. I am not sure what I will do yet, but my dash isn't getting any better. It's not to bad yet but the day is coming, that I will have to do something.I would just buy a used dash at the salvage yard. I bought my dash, complete, from the salvage yard for $40. All it needed was cleaning and my dad and I pulled it ourselves. Took us about an hour to do it.
I have thought about asking someone from a northern state to pull one, and I would pay for it, plus there time, but I know it will just crack again in time. There are things I would like to do to my truck, but I already have a lot of time and money in it. I would hate to get a lot more time and money in it, then wreck it. I think about buying a new one, but I know my truck is just as fast, and has almost all the same options. About the only thing I am missing is a back up camera.Yeah, I was never able to find one locally (Mississippi) that wasn't cracked at the defrost vents or at the top where the cluster trim bezel snaps onto it.
I think my donor dash was from Minnesota.
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