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It always nice to see the exterior trim installed. After
plating and polishing, the dash, bumper guard and side trim have
inserts to be painted black. That's a bit tedious to mask 'MERCURY'
but the end results are certainly worth it. Check out the 54
Packard hubcaps for some more tedious masking.
Here the dash board is installed and you can see the
stereo on the right in the glove box. There are many more items
behind this dash than in 1950. We are consciencious to keep things
accessible for future service needs. The owner didn't want to
alter the stock appearance of the dash very much so some customizing
was done. The new knobs and controls had to be altered of have
spacers machined to fit into the curved dash trim, the A/C is
to be vented through the old original speaker hole rather than
cut vents into the dash. The stereo is completely hidden and
operates remotely with the glove box door closed. The Dakota
Digital dash has calibration switches that they made very inconvenient
to access. We placed seperate switches otherwise the entire instrument
cluster and housing would have to be removed just to calibrate
the speedometer. We retained the operation of the fresh air vents
using the stock levers in the dash. Custom covers were made to
fit over the ugly part of the vents on the inner fenders.
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