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LSxChevelle
01-21-2013, 10:17 PM
I picked up a 72 Monte dash complete with 2 clusters (idiot lights) and harness for $280. Came blue with the normal wood grain fascia. So I cleaned it and painted it with someold SEM landau black I had...

Not actual dash but here is the color it came...
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Painted black
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Then I started searching for places to wrap in carbon and came accross Mark Wu of Wu Wraps...I was pretty impressed with his work. The 3M carbon he does looks great. (I hate fake carbon but this looks damn good) So it was $100 as it has 18 cut outs. He said he could do all the wood inside my Saab Trollblazer SS for $150-$200 as an example of price.
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Bought some cheap $20 shipped white overlays. I had 2 sets of gauges so I installed on the ones with spotted rust.
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Got the fascia...looks even better in person.
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Also got some scraps so I can do a little on vents. He gave me a lot of scraps so I did this too. Pretty hard on tight corners. Makes me appreciate his work!
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Kjames
01-22-2013, 06:23 PM
Nice job, would love to see how it looks in the car
What steering wheel are you going to use

LSxChevelle
01-22-2013, 08:26 PM
Stock steering wheel for now. Even the gauges are temporary... Going to eventually run the Speed Hut gauges.