@tomkuester posted:You may have convinced me to leave well enough alone, but you've done it several times, so either you love doing this or you did it on different cars.
If I want to go with the metal bar fix, where can they be purchased?
My car is modified so another modification does not matter. I like the 74 dash so much better than the 72. If I was to remove the dash, why not replace it with a 74. Do you know where I might be able to get my hands on one?
I've never seen those bars listed as available from anyone so I would speculate that you are going to need to source those from a used dash.
Maybe Bosswrench has a handle on that but considering he is using a GT40 dash rather then a Pantera dash, maybe that's a suggestion of what you are getting into?
You need to make the usually rounds of vendors. Hall at one time was THE source for original parts but Wilkinson has really replaced him but even so is nowhere near as comprehensive parts wise.
You could try Larry Stock since he specializes to an extent in Pantera "racing parts" and may have some "take offs" available?
Again, if you are going to a single pod, I'd highly recommend the "euro/fiberglass version" rather then the USA plastic version. One of the Byers brothers had the mold for that at Procession Proformance but since they have now both passed, I don't know the situation.
Detomaso was a bit of a "hot rod shop" on items like this and usually found sources for generic parts in Europe that would work? That is really pretty obvious when you start to find where certain parts like the switches, defroster ducts and the like came from like Fiat, BMW, Alfa, Lancia, etc.
No, I have not worked on several cars. All of this is learned from hard knocks on mine. I've had mine since 1985 and have had it completely apart more then once.
Sometimes I am my own worst enemy since it always seems like if I am doing a repair, why not do an upgrade at the same time if I deem that as inevitable?
So in the sense that you only learn from your mistakes, I must be a genius by now and yet the general consensus is that I am not? I would add that often I am my own worst critic. It's kind of "the Emperor has no clothes" thing and others sympathetically won't mention it to me. 