Congrats on the trophy Marty, jealous of your small Ford days over there, we don't have one here in WA, small Fords seem to be a bit underground. Or maybe I'm just not getting invited
 
Capri clinic over here was knocking out fibreglass dash tops back in the day. I've had mine for years, it's covered in grained vinyl and near on impossible to spot from an original, better though, it's never going to crack like they all did

Thanks guys 👍🏆

I remember the Capri clinic stuff they had selling a while back, didn't the place burn down or something a while back taking molds and machinery?

The mk2 dashtop is in the to do list whether I make a near as dammit copy or buy one from UK to pilfer . The grain of the hardest to replicate, trying to find a wrap with the texture to use.

WA clubs, maybe just do a Google hunt for car shows about the place. Gotta say even we here in sa don't hear much of car shows or speed events, makes it harder as I don't watch TV or commercial radio stations

Thats right Marty, his place caught fire, he was still living and operating out of there, albeit with an open roof when I got my dash top. He made all sorts of other stuff too, he was also selling F100 dashtops at the time.
 
There are a couple of small Ford related car clubs over here, I largely keep to myself though after I saw some ugly politics in the Tickford club when I had the TE50. We do have a great pre-85 / steel bumper club locally that do cars and coffee style meets near home, I'll usually take one of the cars down for a look but thats about it.

Found it..

Car Styling Covering Wrapping
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mLcsXem

I'm going to get a spool of this stuff to try and skin over a dashtop or even the door cards, depending on how pliable and quality, worth a try and will keep you updated

interesting stuff Marty.
I wonder how it would go with some heat to help it contour around the dashtop.
 
So where you thinking Croc texture?
Might be a hit for the FNQ scene?
 
If it stuck ok permanently, i'd almost try skinning over the dash as a fix, and leaving it as a reapir.
It has to look better than the moulded carpet covers.
 
Hmm, croc dash and matching doorcards in the van would be the ducks kiwis I reckon.
If they only did it in white.... :)
 
 

Here is the clock pod glassed up and was curing for about 5 days in the warm Adelaide weather in the shed

This is the part straight out of the mold

This one is bought by Deano and will be posted this week
Rear door cards molds got a layer or 3 of glass



And once they cured after a week I popped them apart and cleaned all the release agent off

Already started making my rear door cards, threw the class on them today

Looking around the stash of getting rare bits I came across a heater switch bezel found in 1 of my mk2 vans, I thought that not many people have these parts as they mainly have the full padded cover panel. If you want the RS custom clock pod you need this panel to complete the dash so I'm making a mold of this now..

And because I had a bit of black gelcoat left over I got making the next clock pod

Hi Guys,
Been off grid for a while. Visited (very) sunny Vic to pick up the boat.
 
Marty, A mate here got an upholsterer to redo his (MK2) dash pad. It looked good at first with a nice textured black vinyl, but after a few days and some sun it took on a different appearance. I feel this will be a trial and error thing?
Is there any way of getting the effect by using this vinyl (or similar) on the mold, or will the resin kill it?

Hi Mark, if it's the soft vinyl type which has fabric on the back, I don't think it can be used even with mold release agent. The gelcoat will weigh it down and cause inverted creases so I wouldn't try it. I did a pr of mk1 front door trims years ago and and there's remnants of depressions but only slight and hardly seen when on the door.

The weather was slightly stupid hot over the weekend so I started making a header mock-up kit, only cause I seen Dave's Garage do it and thought I might need those one day for my cars.
They are 1.5in dia for now but will make larger ones later on.

Parts have raised size indicator and lines so you can match up what angle you need to transfer to the real stainless pipe, there's 16x pieces in this donut !

Making the straight parts I started with a 1in and and doubled it till I got to 4in, and then remove the top one for the 3in tubes , different colors for different heights

Action shot of more curves being printed, this bunch was a throw away as the feed didn't like doing silly dots so I turned the tubes facing side on and came up spot on, still learning this stuff!