Re: Repairing '55 Clipper seat panels

Posted by BH On 2017/7/7 11:38:00

From looking at the analogous part on my dad's 56 Executive, I wondered if it had been vacuum-formed, originally.

The original Avanti dash pad was formed that way - a sheet of thermoplastic material held in a frame, heated in an infrared oven, then set over a 'plug', and vacuum applied to draw the material into shape. We never did find the correct material to allow for reproduction of that pad, but several other types of parts were drawn from Royalite for (then) current production.