Day 132 - Control Panel & Dash | Bus Conversion

Today we did a lot of misc. things like staining the dash, varnishing the dash, varnish other wood in the bus that still needed it and so on. But the main thing we focused on was finishing up the dash, panel display and the control panel.

The first thing I started on today was the panel display (Speedometer etc.).

The trim of the panel display was originally gray:



Here it is installed:



Next I put the first coat of varnish on the dash:



Next I cleaned up my mess of wires (see day 127) and permanently installed the control panel. I may still rework where or how the switches are:



Here is the display panel lit up: