pposey
Well-known member
I asked here about getting rid of the seat belt light last year,,, some people have removed it and others like it. It always bugged me with the way it stood out visually and I was always thinking of a way to get rid of it while adding to the look of the dash..
My car has a 1970 Torino 429 in it, so when I came across a 429 fender emblem for the Torino i started thinking. The angle on the fender emblem was the same at the face of our dash, and the size was about right,,,, I found a fender emblem that had not been finished and was just the plain pot metal,,, I made a small bracket that is contained within the body of the emblem and it has 2 small bolts that use the existing mount holes for the seat belt light, painted the emblem with self etching primer, then the same paint as I repainted my dash with, a spray bomb of the metallic grey. Then I very lightly sanded the raised surfaces of the emblem to have the numbers stand out.
In person the colors work really well. The emblem blends in with the dash but the numbers stand out enough to get some attention,, it really looks like it was suppose to be there.
My car has a 1970 Torino 429 in it, so when I came across a 429 fender emblem for the Torino i started thinking. The angle on the fender emblem was the same at the face of our dash, and the size was about right,,,, I found a fender emblem that had not been finished and was just the plain pot metal,,, I made a small bracket that is contained within the body of the emblem and it has 2 small bolts that use the existing mount holes for the seat belt light, painted the emblem with self etching primer, then the same paint as I repainted my dash with, a spray bomb of the metallic grey. Then I very lightly sanded the raised surfaces of the emblem to have the numbers stand out.
In person the colors work really well. The emblem blends in with the dash but the numbers stand out enough to get some attention,, it really looks like it was suppose to be there.