Monday 26 May 2014

RHD Dashboard Conversion Part 3


What to do with that large hole where the Gauges used to be.

I suppose a glove box would be nice.  So as I have an old beetle that will never see the road again, I thought maybe I could graft its glove box in.

Unfortunately, the Beetle glove box is about 25mm too deep, so not wanting to be beaten, I decided to section the glove box door and frame and weld them back together to fit.










Here is the slimmed down beetle glove box clamped in place.

 Unfortunately, I forgot to take photos of the glove box door as I cut it down to size.  This is a little tricky but does butt weld together very nicely.






Then I used the dash top section from the RH side to fill the top hole.












Not the best photo, but you can see that we now have a glove box.

2 comments:

  1. Hi,just wondering what year was the beetle you cut the glovebox from? Thx

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  2. How did you get on with pedals and cables?

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