do these dash pads have a steel frame under all this foam?
i am planning on getting mine recovered and was wondering if should/could strip all the foam off and still be able to have it look fact when i'm done.

 

mine was wood under the foam so you can just put new foam on the wood but i dont see why you would the factory foam is pretty tuff stuff

 

It's the factory stuff they wrapped around the foam that sucks. :P

Restoring these might be difficult in the general sense of restore. Once they start cracking, they like to keep cracking, so ripping all of the foam off might be necessary, but then you'd have to figure out how to put new foam on so it looks factory. Maybe use some of that spray foam and use a bondo grater to shape it, but then you'd want a factory pad nearby to shape too.

Someone just needs to step up to the plate and make dash pads for these cars. Almost EVERY car needs one, so they definitely have demand, Classic Industries are the only people I know of that carry them though, and even though the demand is huge, it's not $350 huge. Especially for something that's probably stock quality, if not WORSE.

 

there were a few companies on ebay that were makin them Never saw one in person but they looked pretty good from the pics

 

I just bought about 4 yards of vinyl. I wonder if it would be extremely hard to glue/stretch some of it over the pad to cover it up. Biggest problem I can think of is getting the corner to look right.

 

yeah i had those same worries about the corners. thats why i'm goin to have a pro doit. i'd rather spend the money knowing it will be done right. then i won't have to worry about it ever craking. i use the Mcquiers leather stuff. so i know it will last a very long time.