67 center dash

[Jim Nilsen]

Hey everyone,

Here's my attempt to fill the center dash in my 67...it's not finished yet, but you get the idea. The nice, completed version at the bottom is from a Banks project car I found on the web years ago...all the fabrication was awesome. They have nice radiuses where mine...well, not so nice. LOL

Anyway, it looks pretty good in person although now I wish I would have went with 2 1/16" gauges. Oh well, I may redo it yet.

Zeuss, thanks for pointing out that blank trim piece from Camaro Central...I may use that yet (or at least the outside trim).

For my interior, I want some custom touches but still maintain that 67 feel (if that makes sense), so trimming out the pebble center and having that chrome trim piece around the edge could work well. Just a thought anyway...

Jason

I thought about doing this so many times and then to reverse the gauges from being sunk in to beveled out. I like the beveled out way so you can see the gauges better. Both ways are a lot of work to do.

Nice job!!

[zuess4u]

Hey everyone,

Here's my attempt to fill the center dash in my 67...it's not finished yet, but you get the idea. The nice, completed version at the bottom is from a Banks project car I found on the web years ago...all the fabrication was awesome. They have nice radiuses where mine...well, not so nice. LOL

Anyway, it looks pretty good in person although now I wish I would have went with 2 1/16" gauges. Oh well, I may redo it yet.

Zeuss, thanks for pointing out that blank trim piece from Camaro Central...I may use that yet (or at least the outside trim).

For my interior, I want some custom touches but still maintain that 67 feel (if that makes sense), so trimming out the pebble center and having that chrome trim piece around the edge could work well. Just a thought anyway...

Jason

Thats pretty much how we had ours, but what we did different was use the trim and cut enough of the original to fit all 4 gauges. Then we cut and fabbed a in-lay peice using 3m steel adhesive, with gauge bezels already attached....It really looked good, kept the stock 67 appeal, but like I said...lol..once we mounted it all the gauges were at too much of a downward angle to be functional....you are on the right track for sure. Thought: if you just want the trim around that area, I would go with something cheap to test and cut, then spending 60$ on the delete item...just my .02

Keep up the progress I think it looks great.

[zuess4u]

Do you guys remember, there was a company who made a dash with the counter sunk bezels built into it?

Draw back of course was the cost and they only had 3 gauge holes, but other then that it looked pretty nice. I think they wanted 1k for the dash....

[mroth]

I believe Covan's has a 4 hole one and also a 4 hole blank that you can cut out for your own specialty gauges

[67 455 Bird ragtop]

I believe Covan's has a 4 hole one and also a 4 hole blank that you can cut out for your own specialty gauges

I have a "simulated cf" version I have for sale in the classified section here and on ebay and will either make my own or buy the stock blank from Camaro Central. The Covan item is a nice piece if you only want to have 4 gauges in your center dash. They are angled towards the driver for easy reading.

I took a small portion of the top chrome trim off a beat up factory panel and epoxied it to the top center back of the Covan panel. It will use the original stock upper mount and just needs to be screwed into the dash at the bottom.

[Cdog]

I've been planning on running a 67 console with the gauge cluster. Putting fuel, fuel pressure and volt gauge in the factory holes. Then modifying the dash at the ashtray to take 3 gauges straight across for water temp, oil pressure and oil temp.

I'd rather have a radio than an ash tray.

[Irnmike]

I made a metal bracket to take a modern stereo that bolts to the dash and then used a stock bezel with a piece of textured abs plastic glued in

[mroth]

Good job Michael. Is that the center piece from Camaro Central? I am still waiting to get mine.

Mike

[Irnmike]

No, it's a stock piece with abs glued into the recess. easy to add to later.

[67 455 Bird ragtop]

Good job Michael. Is that the center piece from Camaro Central? I am still waiting to get mine.

Mike

Did you get your panel yet?? I plan to order one but am waiting to see what your feedback was on this panel.

[mroth]

Yes, I got both both pieces in. They seem to be made of good quality. I tried to fit the center console in but it won't fit underneath the dash because I raised the tunnel up to get my T-56 tranny to fit. I am trying to figure out what my next game plan is. The shifter sits back about 3 inches from stock so it might look funny with it. If everything is stock in it I think it is a great value. I need to find the piece to hold up the center piece for the center gauge cover. I am working overtime for the next couple weeks at work so it may be a while to posts pics. It looks just like stock without the cutouts.

Mike

[67 455 Bird ragtop]

Thanks for the feedback. I was just curious how it fit verses the stock piece before I ordered one for myself.

[zuess4u]

I had mentioned this earlier in the thread, but I think everyone thought I was talking about the Covan insert......

But has anyone tried that dash pad that has the 3 gauge pods molded into the DASH PAD itself...I forget who makes them...

What I do remember is that the pad was around 1k.

[67 455 Bird ragtop]

I just got my Camaro Central panel today. Here are some quick pics of it. The first is a front view. You can see the grain. The second is the back. The third is a mock up I did with 4 2-5/8" gauges and a mount for the radio from a guy up in Canada makes. It's a really nice headunit mount. So it looks like you can mount 4 gauges and a radio. The radio needs to have a support of it's own because this panel is a little thin. It can probably hold the gauges but not a radio. For $60 it's a nice piece to use for custom applications and make it look stock.

BTW - the headunit mount guys web site is

http://www.humount.com/

[zuess4u]

Thanks for posting the pics, looks like this panel can work out well for those who dont want to horse with a bunch of fabbing or that plastic insert. Good stuff.

[67 455 Bird ragtop]

Thanks for posting the pics, looks like this panel can work out well for those who dont want to horse with a bunch of fabbing or that plastic insert. Good stuff.

Definitely opens up a lot of options and still maintain a stock look. Now the question is to leave it black or paint it the same color as the rest of the dash and interior.... Right now I'm 50-50

[zuess4u]

Definitely opens up a lot of options and still maintain a stock look. Now the question is to leave it black or paint it the same color as the rest of the dash and interior.... Right now I'm 50-50

Im having the same issues, leaning more to the black.