How To Build a Wood Dashboard from Scratch

Colin
By Colin Wood
Apr 26, 2021 | wood, Shop Work, Interior

Nowadays, wood on the interior of a car is usually regulated to sparse strips of veneer on the dash or the doors, but that wasn’t always the case. Back in the day, on cars like our 1964 Lotus Elan project car, the entire dash was often constructed of wood.

How, then, do you replace a wooden dash on an aging classic? Replacements do exist, but we detail how to make one from scratch–either out of desire or necessity, like for our Series 1 Elan–over on Classic Motorsports.

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