Re: alfa-digest V7 #494

[Joel Hailey <alfadoc@domain.elided>]

> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 22:34:36 -0800
> From: Charles Koster <krash2@domain.elided>
> Subject: GTV-6 dash mat
>
> I'm luck enough to have a crack-free dash, so I bought a dash mat to try
> and help keep it that way.  It came from Pep Boys, and while I can't
> remember the manufacturer, it's just one of the companys that makes a model
> cut for every car model.  It was about $35.  Mine's black, but I know they
> come in at least one other color (a truly raucous red), because they
> ordered the wrong color the first try.  The problem is that the GTV-6 dash
> has so many hills, corners, valleys, etc. that the mat won't conform to the
> dash's various contours, like around the two sunken air vents.  I've got an
> idea how to get around that but, due to indolence/procrastination, I
> haven't tried it yet.  I have an old cracked dash removed from a previous
> car, and I'm going to paint the back side of the dash mat with a light coat
> of fiberglass resin and pin the thing down to the old dash so that it
> hardens to the contours of the dash (without sticking to the old dash).
> Low tech, it's true, but it might work.
>
> Charlie Koster
> 1986 GTV-6
> Kagel Canyon, CA
>

Centerline will shortly be going into production with a rigid dashcap for the GTV6.

Please call for pricing and ETA.

Joel Hailey
Centerline Products
Boulder CO
303-447-0239

P.S. Please excuse my absence of late from this forum. We're working like dogs
on the new catalog, which WILL be out this spring!

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