I bent some 18 ga. 90*, cut to about 12" long... I trimmed the top surface at a shallow angle to follow the clearance along the A pillar to firewall rail... used [2] 41.75" x 5/8" x 5/8" steel tubes welded together... sat them ontop of the 90*s... slide the 1950 ish F1 column drop onto the chunk of '36 tube... slid the tube's other end out through a hole in the firewall / floor... squeeze clamped the drop to the 5/8" crossrail... I will have to cut and slightly tilt the drop to let the crossrail sit flush on the 90*s... then weld it together, bolt in the dash... . .
Top half is '35 -'36 Ford car the bottom half is '40 car... ashtrays won't work as they are different than the dash... going to use the top half of a waterfall because i like them... '56 ford truck V8 instead of the broken speaker grill... if you can't find '40 ashtrays, try cutting a section of a 2 liter soda bottle so its compound curve matches the dash around the ashtray door's hole... cut it too big... trace the outline of the hole onto it...you can see through it so you can center the outline over a "ford script / duolamp" stamping in a '30 to '34 ford car head light... making stainless ashtray covers with Ford script stamped into them... [most junk headlights i have seen were not dented there]... sorry pre computer project no door pix, just the templates...
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