1955 BN1 dash

[Tyrone]

Hi, I've got a 55 BN1 with a solid black dash. The car is original, black with red interior. Can someone tell me what determined if the car had a two tone dash or not. The car is under restoration and the two tone dash seems more attractive.
Thank you, Tyrone

 

[bighealeysource]

Hey Tyrone,
Per Anderson/Moment's book, on a black car the dash would have been painted body color with raised instrument panel a non reflective silver. They do note that a few owners of original unrestored cars believe the instrument panel was body color. If yours is original and never been painted, maybe you have one of the ones with a solid color dash. From a restoration point of view, I would go with the two tone since that was the usual case. Like you, I think the two tone looks far better.
Regards,
Mike

 

[Bob_Spidell]

FWIW, my dad carefully took the dash on our 100M down to bare metal and found no evidence of any silver paint (white/black car). It also seems we had one of the cars that had parts of the chassis--inc. the engine bay--painted black.

 

[Tyrone]

Thank You,
Tyrone