Richard
The problem with the stampings in the sheetmetal isn't just
on the later yrs. The rear fenders were made until 1966 and
i have seen a few of the drivers side rear fenders that don't
have a good crease in the middle. It seems that they did learn
to build and assemble them better as they went along as the
door fender and hood margins seemed to get better. If anyone
is going to the trouble to change a dash the gmc dash is a little
better if you want to use individual gauges. These old trucks were
never very well fit and there is where the work is when you try
to make them right I have a couple of gmc dashes and 1 really nice
57 chev. if someone wants to email off the list. The work to take
the dash out is worth more than the dash hehehelol.
Bob Casebeer
2 57 chevys and 56 gmc short beds big windows
Richard Kinas wrote:
> To all,
> I thought I'd just share an observation with everyone, with the latest talk
> about TF Fenders interchanging. One of the previous owners of my 59 Chevy
> butchered the radio section of the dash. I could not stand another day
> looking at that mess, so I decided to cut it out and weld in a replacement.
> I found a 56 donner cab, which was so eaten away with rust, it would
> crumple like tin foil when you touched it, but it had a perfect dash. What
> luck! Well when I got the dash section home and was prepping it for
> installation, I noticed a remarkable difference in sharpness of the creases
> around the glove box. From what I saw, it looks like the dies used to
> produce the dash panels were just about wore out by 1959. I was very
> surprised by the amount of difference in appearance. This is one of those
> things you would never notice looking at one or the other, but comparing
> them side-by-side it becomes very noticeable. Given my observations, I
> would rather have an earlier cab no matter what year of TF truck I was
> building.
>
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