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I have a new dashboard for my 67 bgt.
Does any body knows what there is to be done to it?
Does it needs to be sanded down and then laquared?

Cheers
 
lefty, your dashboard was originally "wrinkle-painted". It needs to be stripped to bare metal, then you can purchase wrinkle paint that will wrinkle for you. It does need to be very hot outside to wrinkle well though.

The other option, and the better one in my opinion is to take the dashboard to a powdercoater. They will sandblast it and then wrinkle powdercoat it, and it looks the same, you have the least frustration, and it is more durable than paint.
 
Thank you very much for the answer. Does it needs to be done in an specialised workshop, or any workshop can do this kind of job?

Cheers
 
You can do it if you buy the crinkle paint & make sure tempeature is above what it says on can - 70 I think
 
I did mine at ambient 85 F but took it down to bare metal, fixed a few imperfections and shot a coat of epoxy primer over it first to block it down. Plasti-Kote wrinkle paint "217 BLACK" works like magic. I agonised over this for more than a month before I did it, and now it looks for all the world as if it just left Abingdon-on-Thames. I did a four coat with eight minutes apart at about 85F, in DIRECT Florida sun after the last coat.
 
Outstanding!

Okay, John... where were you with this link when I was goin' thru the angst over my dash?? HUH?
 
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