As per title, I was commissioned to reproduce a 206 / 246L dashboard, complete with all components. No mouse hair and no rubber foam for glovebox lid. These are the original metal boxes and hinges Image Unavailable, Please Login New plywood, will be routed out to original shape and openings. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Original dash. Love the chalk, terrific handwriting Image Unavailable, Please Login New metal boxes and handmade hinges Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login This dashboard from #01104, that requires full reupholster and detailing. The metal gloveboxes and other map glovebox (under dash), reproduced. The metal part was redone first, as easier to remake. Removed all dash glue, and polished to prepare for waxing and produce a mould. Enjoy the first photos... Regards, Alberto Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Thank you Tony! There are a few parts (18) to the dash, unique to these models... The only parts not shown are the 2 corner sheetmetal sections that attach the dash to the body. Also, there is the flat part under the dash, encompassing the whole width. Regards, Alberto Image Unavailable, Please Login
Today's update... Moving along with mould making. A few to go. Regards, Alberto Image Unavailable, Please Login Slurp... Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Original L Instrumentation Pod Image Unavailable, Please Login Previous copy of E series pod. not quite the same. Image Unavailable, Please Login Laying the 'glass Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Original L Steering cover, very different from M series below, crazy guys. Why change it? Image Unavailable, Please Login
Differences in the Instrument pod... . The L version is dimensionally different, and on the M series, the back strip is not there as we never applied it...yet the same. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Except for the glovebox door and the vent lever location, all Dino dashes look exactly the same in a car, Not so...yet I wonder about the E. Regards, Alberto
Dashboard mould. As you can see, the vent openings will be added afterwards, as, if in one unit, it would be impossible to separate. Regards, Alberto Image Unavailable, Please Login
This is super cool -- maybe I'm late to the game but why not scan and 3D print? Is the idea to have actual fiberglass under the mouse hair, like the original? I know Tom Yang in a relatively recent video scanned and 3D printed a center console for a 330 (?)...
Vents, sources, anyone? FIAT, perhaps? Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Will, interesting thought. I live in El Salvador, and 3D printing is in its infancy here, and my dash is not traveling anywhere, and seriously doubt 'anyone' would lend you theirs to copy. Besides, this one is an L series, or a 206, of which the smallest numbers of Dino were made. To have the original 'glass look under the dash, lends originality, even if no one would notice. Personally, I prefer originality. Regards, Alberto
Fair enough Alberto -- I totally get it. I do think 3D printing is going to do amazing things, especially in the restoration of cars that don't have the parts availability that we have for Dinos. Maybe this appears elsewhere but was you car in El Salvador in period? I bet it has an interesting history.
No Will, the car sold in Italy, then had a slew of owners. I am # 7 or 8, so no history here... Dino parts 'availability'? Is the dash one example? No one has the moulds I have. Try again... Regards, Alberto
BMW 3D printed the interior window cranks when they restored my 507 back in 2014, so that technology has been in service for auto restoration for some time now...and the handles have yet to fall off or disintegrate...
Starting the Moulds for the vents and the instrument pod. Regards, Alberto Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Moulds partially finished. There is a terrific amount of work involved in producing all these little odds and ends, that eventually will end as a complete dash. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login In case anyone is curious at the Lower Right item in photo, it is a "shiv". Very useful for cutting, and free, as a 'used' hacksaw blade. Terrific steel and temper...
Progress, slow, very meticulous... First pic, fitting of the separate vent moulds, exact position Image Unavailable, Please Login Next, same, but showing process. Image Unavailable, Please Login Strengthening dash mould as they love to warp at edges... Image Unavailable, Please Login More beefing up on other side Image Unavailable, Please Login Dry fitting of instrument pod. Image Unavailable, Please Login See you next time. Regards, Alberto
I only help Terry (the guy who produced the replica TR250) I know just how much work goes into making these parts. Even the simple things are stupidly time consuming. Keep up the good work.
Thank you Tony...and, you are absolutely right. A small piece requires just as much as a large one. Besides, 'glass work is an art. These are replica dash vents I made for the BMW CS cars. People tried 3D, (impossible) and have been unobtainium for 40 years. Now back in stock. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Map Pocket. Funny guys, and as usual never a tad of continuity, this one has red threads, and lots! So, we'll make it red thread, as per factory specs. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Have a great weekend. See you on Tuesday. Regards, Alberto
This ^^, my dear Alberto, is were true enthusiasm and artisan pursuit for authenticity becomes clear. Now, one can scan, refine every detail on computer & 3D print just about anything, but are the result authentic, as in these were handmade cars after all, right ?
