I dont miss rust at all, spent most of my Mini owning life just trying to
keep it at bay LOL
By the way Steve how are? not coresponded for a while, Lis and I now have
quite a menagire on the property, we have 4 chooks, and 3 calves, next week
I have a few sheep coming...so I'm expecting a flood of requests for invites
to come and visit.....from my Aussie cousins

I blow a raspberry in your general direction Makka LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Tim

It's not that difficult as long as you have access to a jig-saw for cutting
the holes.  The trickiest bit is working out how you are going to mount the
dashboard to the car, I used little 'L' shaped brackets on the top and
bottom rails but there is not much room to get a drill in to make the
mounting holes into the rails and also the rails are curved so you need to
centre punch well to stop the drill wandering.

Do it in 2 stages, first make yourself a template from cardboard because
it's easy to cut and it doesn't matter if you muck it up.  Once you have the
shape you can then trace round it onto your proper material.  I would not
recommend MDF like in the link below as it loses it's strength if it gets
wet (although you could seal it with varnish I guess), I used a sheet of
aluminium.  Cut the holes for any switches and gauges and then cover it with
whatever you fancy.  I used black vinyl, I know others that have used a thin
sheel of foam and then black vinyl for a 'padded' look (required for the UK
SVA test on kit cars).

http://www.niksula.cs.hut.fi/~mdobruck/siililand/mini/diy/alien/dash/scott/m
inidash.html

Shaun.