Classic cars forum & vehicle restoration.

[pigtin]

A friend of mine is restoring an 1968 Austin A60 Estate. The dash top has been destroyed by the sun and he cannot find a new, or decent s/h replacement. Any suggestions will be welcome.

Don.
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[Phil - Nottingham]

This is becoming a very common problem on a lot if cars and apart from sourcing a good secondhand one the only other option is to repad/recover - it will not look or feel the same though - you need a stetchy vynil. Some do actually look better than original!

If you can get the old covering off the the foam back without damageing the foam even better
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[bob2]

Have the same problem with the hunter and my decision is to recover it, will be tackled in the next couple of weeks and will let you know how it goes!!

[Phil - Nottingham]

I had a good Mk3 Humber Sceptre type which fitted the the early Hunter/Minxes/Geazells/Vogues. Tried to sell it but no one was interested so I binned it (5 yrs ago!) - excellent condition it was too

This being almost flat would recover well but the hard foam underneath goes as well
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[bob2]

I have a couple of ideas which might work and will leave the original hard foam in place!!

Will let u know when I try it out though!!
It sort of worked for a friend on his clubman which is similar!!