'67 Plymouth Gauge Panel for 6 round gauges

[Ron Boyd]

When rebuilding my '67, I wanted more info than the stock gauges would give me. Since there wasn't, and probably still isn't, an aftermarket option, I set about building my own. It took a lot of time and money, but I did get design one and have it made and it bolts right up in my car with no issue. I'm very happy with how it turned out.

There are the 6 gauge holes and the other 4 are for turn signal, high beam, and idiot light indicators.

Here it is in the car...it's hard to get a good picture of it with the wheel there.

 

[65Bel]

When rebuilding my '67, I wanted more info than the stock gauges would give me. Since there wasn't, and probably still isn't, an aftermarket option, I set about building my own. It took a lot of time and money, but I did get design one and have it made and it bolts right up in my car with no issue. I'm very happy with how it turned out.
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There are the 6 gauge holes and the other 4 are for turn signal, high beam, and idiot light indicators.

Here it is in the car...it's hard to get a good picture of it with the wheel there.
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That is beautiful Ron! Great job. Are there other pics of your car somewhere here on FBBO? Be nice to see it in Photo Garages.

 

[Fran Blacker]

To expensive to make more to sell? Wouldn't do it to my Satellite it would hurt market value. If I was working on 66/67 and modifying it that looks great.

 

[Ron Boyd]

It cost over $2k just to have it milled...and I have a buddy who runs that shop. The laser scanning cost another $2k and was mostly a waste of money. The file I got back from scanning was only useful for general shape. I had to manually build the end product from a lot of measuring and eyeballing and time at the computer.

I'm sure if I had 10 made I could maybe sell them for $2k apiece, but I just don't think there'd be enough of market to justify that.

The gauge panel ended up being the third most expensive part on the car behind the motor and paint.

 

[Ron Boyd]

Here are some links to a few pics in the forum. I'll see about getting a garage done.

https://www.forbbodiesonly.com/moparforum/threads/quarter-glass-amd-not-good.233023/
https://www.forbbodiesonly.com/moparforum/threads/new-guy-here-sort-of.233027/

 

[VFilms]

Your work is quite impressive. Would love to have one for my Belvedere, but yes, it is cost prohibitive for me at this time. I see by the vents in the dash it's a A/C car. Just wondering where you placed the heater/AC controls. Again, impressive work!

 

[Ron Boyd]

Your work is quite impressive. Would love to have one for my Belvedere, but yes, it is cost prohibitive for me at this time. I see by the vents in the dash it's a A/C car. Just wondering where you placed the heater/AC controls. Again, impressive work!

If you look closely at the interior picture you can see that the radio has extra knobs in it now. The Vintage Air billet knobs are a close enough match to the original knobs that I bought extra of them and used them in place of the OE knobs since several were broken. A keen eye will note that things aren't quite as they should be to the left of the steering wheel. The brake warning light is gone(which pained me greatly) and now the headlight and wiper controls are there.

 

[VFilms]

If you look closely at the interior picture you can see that the radio has extra knobs in it now. The Vintage Air billet knobs are a close enough match to the original knobs that I bought extra of them and used them in place of the OE knobs since several were broken. A keen eye will note that things aren't quite as they should be to the left of the steering wheel. The brake warning light is gone(which pained me greatly) and now the headlight and wiper controls are there.

Wonderful work. If you ever decide to mass produce these give me a shout. Also, where were you in '66/'67 when Chrysler was designing theses dash boards. They could have used you.

 

[Ron Boyd]

Wonderful work. If you ever decide to mass produce these give me a shout. Also, where were you in '66/'67 when Chrysler was designing theses dash boards. They could have used you.

They did a great job on the Charger dash, so they just chose to make the Plymouth ones not so great.

 

[Durandal25]

When rebuilding my '67, I wanted more info than the stock gauges would give me. Since there wasn't, and probably still isn't, an aftermarket option, I set about building my own. It took a lot of time and money, but I did get design one and have it made and it bolts right up in my car with no issue. I'm very happy with how it turned out.
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There are the 6 gauge holes and the other 4 are for turn signal, high beam, and idiot light indicators.

Here it is in the car...it's hard to get a good picture of it with the wheel there.
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Awesome sir! In truth, this is the future for our hobby. Milling and making our own replacement parts. Chi-com garbage is not that much cheaper and its terribly made.

 

[Herr_Poopschitz]

Anything prohibiting it from being 3d printed?

 

[VFilms]

Anything prohibiting it from being 3d printed?

Was thinking the same thing.

 

[Ron Boyd]

Anything prohibiting it from being 3d printed?

It was 5 years or so ago that I was doing it and a 3D printer that was big enough to do the full length was prohibitively expensive. I'd think it would take a lot of finish work after the print to get a surface texture that you would want to show, but I only base that on the prints that I've seen. Please tell me about it if I'm wrong.