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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 69 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 69 | I just finished applying the leather to the front of the dash. I will do the sides tomorrow after the adhesive dries on the front. It was a very simple job. I will post pics as soon as I am finished.
I purchased two full hides on ebay to cover my bench seats. I had so much left over I decided to do the dash and door panels. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 37 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 37 | I did the same thing last year, I love the look! really makes the stainlesss grill and glovebox stand out. I made a paper template, laid it out over the leather to cut it out and sprayed with adhesive. You are right, its all one piece and you just cut out the openings after you have applied it! Actually this is one project you may want to involve the signifcant other, since the folds on the sides are like wrapping a christmas package and its a lot like scrapbooking (so she said) regardless, she is much better with an exacto knife and scissors than I am! | | | | | Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,750 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,750 | You guys have got me thinking now.......I really like the look. It's certainly different. I'm thinking along the lines of a Shark grey leather for my bench seat,maybe I'll speak nicely to my upholsterer to see if he has any left! BTW Randy....Is stainlesss the extra shiny version of stainless?  
1950 Chevy Advance Design 3100 in ScotlandIn the Stovebolt GalleryMore pix on Flickr. I've definately got this truck thing in my blood ... my DNA sequence has torque settings"Of all the small nations of this earth,perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind" Winston Churchill.
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 37 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 37 | Its the special stainless!
I have grey leather seats and the black leather dash, with the left over hide, I mounted it on the back wall with batting to "puff it out a little bit" behind the seats where the gas tank was and secured with buttons to create a diamond pattern. (actually in hind site you rarely look back there but it does deaden sound even a little bit more.
I was dead serious, if you have a wife that is feeling left out, give her this project, she will do a better job than we would (or at least that I would,) She knows all about templates, buttons etc and it gives her something to take pride in on the truck (and if you are luckly enough to have a wife that gets her hands dirty already....does she have a sister?) | | | | | Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,750 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,750 | Mrs Jock's only 4'11" I've already got her drafted to do the under dash work!(I'm 6'3" and just don't fit!)
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1950 Chevy Advance Design 3100 in ScotlandIn the Stovebolt GalleryMore pix on Flickr. I've definately got this truck thing in my blood ... my DNA sequence has torque settings"Of all the small nations of this earth,perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind" Winston Churchill.
| | | | | Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 571 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 571 | Any pics yet? That sounds pretty cool. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 37 New Guy | | New Guy Joined: Feb 2006 Posts: 37 | click on my pic and then go to my photo bucket, I have one on there, I am sure there are other ways to do it as well, | | |
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