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.

RHD Dashboard Conversion Part 2

With the Steering wheel in place, I trial fitted the gauge panel in place.  The brow of the panel has to be removed and  the angle reversed to fit the opposite side, but is a good fit.

Next job to make and fit small plates to fill all of the holes.  At this point I thought, maybe making an all metal dash wasn't the best idea.

However, with a huge amount of patience it is possible to get an all metal dash.  Hopefully with a little smoothing a primer....

Getting there.  Next job to make a glove box from a RHD Beetle.