Custom Dash For My Fairmont Squire

Don't forget the Hot Rod Lincoln.

 

Thanx from me too, SS Those links you posted about the LED dash lites will come be very helpful.

 

No need to thank me. I just try sometimes and actually succeed.

 

Wonder if I could get a pair of these seats, the dash and guages?

 

What is that a Bently or a Rolls?

 

A Bentley, my dear Watson. Purdy, huh?

 

Dashing off to the Dash make-over! Ciao, for now.

 

Norman the price of the wood would be out of my range.

 

That's an easy score, for you in the Carolinas. We've got these garbage bins in the back alley. When I see an old couch (I mean like floral velvet fabric type of old) I take my sawzall out and chop up the frame. Maple, Oak, Ash, Mahogany in 7 foot lengths and up to 3" X 4". One chunk would cost a $200 or more. I get 4 to six lengths plus more short ones. Pull the staples, and call it a Naughty finish - Burled Nail holes. Actually you can make your own stainable filler with the sawdust to hide the holes.

Try buying a real maple butcher block table. $2,000 to $3,000! I was checking out pine boards the other day. Holy smokes! Pine! The crap wood of our softwood forests, well next to poplar and spruce. Un-freakin'-believable! Like oak was 5 years ago. I used to buy Ash and Oak in the early 80's from NC by the semi-load for $1.75 per board foot. Those days are gone! But the couch inventory is really good!

 

Norman, not much wood being cut and sold here.Mostly pine for lumber and the rest get burned. Hardly any furniture factories left and they buy wood from overseas. I look for a big economy change, like no economy.

 

I forget the name of the economic theory, but the concept was that everything levels out over time. The problem, from when we started electing mouthpieces with no original vision, is that they relied on 'eggspurts' with Economics degrees to tell them how to fix the global disparity.

When you start giving your national companies tax grants to invest in foreign countries, to raise their wages and demand for foreign goods, like Buicks in China with employees from GE China or IBM Indonesia or Microsoft China, the ignore the fact that these countries are figuring out the game and working it in reverse. They should have taken that into account. Meanwhile, the cost to rebuild our old manufacturing industrial base to compete with them is astronomical.

And then you get companies in India telling us they can build a 4-seater city car for $2,500. versus tupperware cars for $10,000 to $15,000?!?!?!

Our guys can't even buy the parts that cheap! Never mind the labour. And we showed them how to build the machinery to build them... How dumb is that?

The whiz-kids in the backrooms of government are trying to accelerate global equilibrium and this is what we've got. Outpriced, overpaid and stuck on credit.

 

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It really hurts when you stop.

Back to the Bently. Did you click on that and see how they finished the cargo floor? 2 pics with the Left Arrow! My table isn't that nice!

 

Norman it is a beauty. Will you buy me a Bentley for Christmas?

 

You've already got the Ford Bent Gentlemanly.

I've got my bottomless pit to re-Bently right here!

Catch ya later! I'm out dashing.