Camera Case Material

Cougar Community Classic Cougar Maintenance Restoration and Repair
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I’m about to redo the clock location on the Eliminator (the right hand drive conversion puts it at the end of the panel) and need to find a source of camera case material.

Appreciate any suggestions

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I have enough left over from my install to do one car. As seen here.

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…at 11:41. You’re welcome :smiley:

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Can you turn the panel upside down and flip the emblem over and call it good?

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not really. It’s not symmetrical and the numbers on the clock would be upside down :smiley:

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Don. I would probably need more than one length as I muck around getting clock angles, etc correct. Plus I don’t want to destroy good stuff on a car that isn’t original

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Just a thought here… you could ship your panel up to WCCC and pay for them to do the refit, maybe? They obviously have the experience, having done them in the past :slight_smile:

PS - I love spending other people’s money! LOL!

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Wonder if carbon fiber would look out of place (I have spare panels to play with)

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Can one simulate the camera case material with wrinkle paint?

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I do recall reading a thread about that over on the other forum, but I couldn’t find it :-/

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Here’s a thought… Customer of mine had his instrument dash panel and overlay for his airplane powder coated in a wrinkle finish… It looks really good… I’ll take a pic and upload it…

Brian

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Crinkle powder coat finish…

Brian

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Well, you are Down under so… :wink:

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Brian that crinkle finish looks pretty good. One draw back I see would be the baking time/heat for powder coating might destroy the plastic dash parts.
Steven

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I would not do it on the plastic… Any of the metal inserts on 69/70 cars would work though and paint the plastic surrounds… It’s been years since I had my 67 and can not remember if it had metal inserts in the dash like my 69’s have…

Brian

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Repop Mustang dash pieces have this material. Wonder how to get ahold of the dist (carpenter,drake,ect) to get some?

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Time to wake up an old post:

Don, do you have any more of the camera case material or can you point me in the direction of the material you purchased? The material on my Eliminator is wasted.

Thanks!

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They claim it is a 100% perfect match, it is not… But the closest I have found.

http://www.instrument-specialties.com/services/turn-key-dash-restorations/

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Don’t know if this is helpful, but I use this site to replace the vulcanite and leatherette on old cameras. It comes in adhesive sheets.

http://www.cameraleather.com/colors/

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Thanks Don and Jetexas for the responses.