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Location: Hastings Mn | I just purchased a 61 New Yorker and the vinyl dash pad needs replacing. Does anyone know of a company that does these older dash pads? The top of the steering wheel could use some help too. |
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Location: Victoria, BC, on Vancouver Island, Canada | Hi Frank, welcome to the Forum.
New dash pads are available from Dust Dashes, http://justdashes.com/
There is also a Swedish Company, RD Autoline http://www.autoline.se that reproduces them.
Steering wheel re-casting is done by Quality Restorations, http://qualityrestorations.com/chrysler.html and there is also someone in Sweden who does them.
My 60 Chrysler has a new pad from Just Dashes, and the steering wheel was also re-cast by Koch's but they no longer do the clear wheels.
The 1961-62 Chrysler dash pad reproductions have the lines in them just like the originals. The 1960 pads are plain. This page from Just Dashes shows them doing a 1961-62 Chrysler dash. http://justdashes.com/61_chrysler.html
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Location: The Great Northwest | Check out this previous thread about replacing a 61 New Yorker dash pad
http://www.forwardlook.net/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=27202&...
I found the quality and price of the RD Autoline pad hard to beat.
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Location: Fairfax, Minnesota | imopar380 - 2013-12-25 9:08 PM Hi Frank, welcome to the Forum. New dash pads are available from Dust Dashes, http://justdashes.com/ There is also a Swedish Company, RD Autoline http://www.autoline.se that reproduces them. Steering wheel re-casting is done by Quality Restorations, http://qualityrestorations.com/chrysler.html and there is also someone in Sweden who does them. My 60 Chrysler has a new pad from Just Dashes, and the steering wheel was also re-cast by Koch's but they no longer do the clear wheels. The 1961-62 Chrysler dash pad reproductions have the lines in them just like the originals. The 1960 pads are plain. This page from Just Dashes shows them doing a 1961-62 Chrysler dash. http://justdashes.com/61_chrysler.htmlIan, Was your pad fron Just Dashes made from colored material or painted like the Swedish made dash pads? Thanks, Ray |
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Location: Victoria, BC, on Vancouver Island, Canada | Ray - 2013-12-25 10:17 PM
Ian, Was your pad fron Just Dashes made from colored material or painted like the Swedish made dash pads? Thanks, Ray
It was also painted as far as I know. It was installed in the car when I bought the car. |
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Location: Northen Virginia | The best quality is from the Swedish but the price is higher. |
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Location: The Great Northwest | I bought mine from the RD Autoline's Southern California distribution center almost two years ago and the price was significantly lower than the price given from Just Dashes. Maybe things have changed since then but the quality of the 61 dash pad from RD is what I was looking for. |
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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | imopar380 - 2013-12-26 6:55 PM
Ray - 2013-12-25 10:17 PM
Ian, Was your pad fron Just Dashes made from colored material or painted like the Swedish made dash pads? Thanks, Ray
It was also painted as far as I know. It was installed in the car when I bought the car.
I talked a lot with Tony @ RD about this painted dash - he told me that all the OEM dashes actually was made from black vinyl and painted thereafter. I just checked a sample from my old OEM dashpad and I can at least confirm that my OEM dashpad was black vinyl that was dyed/painted/colored.
I would recommend RD's products, since I bought from them and I'm very pleased with my dashpad. As I don't have any insight on the Just Dashes products, I can't add anything either for nor against them.
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Location: Hastings Mn | Thanks everyone for the responses. I will call both dash places on Thurs and check them out. My dash looks to be black unless it's faded out. The car has a grey and black interior. I don't spend much time online as I have so many fun projects to work on. From what I have seen so far this forum is great so I'll have to check it out more. |
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Location: Northen Virginia | swedemopar, are any plans to make the 57-58 Imperial dash? Thanks
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| We have no new reproduction to 57-58 Imperial but we do padded dash at them if you send the whole dashboard to us. |
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| I had no idea factory colored dash pads were actually black, just painted. Sure makes my life easier if I decide to do a color change.... |
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