1978 Pontiac Firebird Week 2009 03 08

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	Due to the great turn this week of Lenny Ball, George Nick, Ken Long, Frank Serafine, Don Doane, Ron Richardson, and Enzo Addamo We: Made a dash board
	For a change in pace we moved to the interior of the car. There are a lot of projects that are hanging waiting for parts (starter, Fuel line, Wiring Etc. I’m glad we had some experts in fabrication as I was a little lost never having done anything like this
	The first step was to cut some tube to conform to the upper lip of the dash. George is holding it straight, and passing alond expert measuring, while that fat guy in the orange shirt is cutting a crocked cut in the tube to fit over the dash. This crocked cut hunted us through the whole project.
	Now that we have the upper tube, we have to duplicate it for the lower tube.
	Here we have the upper and lower tube in place and spaced apart whit raisers. Now we can try and skin it with metal.
	Ok, who took this complementary shot of the fat guy. You wait until I get my hands on the camera.
	Have you ever heard the joke “how many men does it take to screw in a light bulb? I hope that when they meet that the cut actually joins up.
	Well I guess the cut did join up.

	Now if only I could weld. I did get some warp age from heat, and some porosity. As I have stated before this is my first attempt at something like this. It is far from perfect, but it will hold gauges and switches. I need to keep going so that I make the April 14 date. I really do not think I will make that but I will keep tiring.
	Here it is in primer.
	Mounted in the car. Now I have to do a layout of the gauges, switches, MSD box, etc.