Vinyl is a fabric and as such, the woman of the household made the vinyl covered dash. First job, assuming your marine ply dash is ready - cut vinyl roughly the right size.
Then, using lots of newspaper as not to ruin the floor, spray contact adhesive on the wood and the vinyl (in straight lines, 90° to each other as per instructions)
Wait 5 mins then slap the vinyl on the wood, then trim leaving enough to fold over.
Fit gauges
Fit switches, then do lots and lots of wire cutting and crimping.
et voila. One semi-authentic dash with not-quite-but-almost original layout. And wonky switches that aren't in a neat line (my fault). Disregarding the cost of the gauges and switches, total cost for dash was probably about £25 and took roughly 5 or 6 hours, most of that was head scratching whilst doing the wiring.
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