[DaimLan] Daimler V8 250 / soft top dash to Veneer?

Has anyone converted a Daimler V8 leather dash to Veneer.
Veneered the leather dash?–
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Pardon? The Daimler V8 20 and 2 1/2 Litre V8 have walnut veneer dashboards.

Unless you are talking about the vinyl covered centre dash. If its that then I think you could buy a complete panel from a breakers from one of the other cars in the Jaguar range which would fit fine.

Roger Holmes
1969 V8-250 and 1998 Super V8 (Daimlers)On 10 Nov 2011, at 22:50, DstJohn wrote:

Has anyone converted a Daimler V8 leather dash to Veneer.
Veneered the leather dash?

DstJohn

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In reply to a message from Roger Holmes sent Fri 11 Nov 2011:

Roger : it sounds as though someone has changed your 250 top dash (
the one which goes right across the car) for one from a Mark 2. The
240/250/340 all originally had a padded insert there similar to
that in the 420G–
christopher storey
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Hi Chris,

Now I know you are talking about the top roll. Mine is indeed vinyl. The makers did not change it on a whim, it was for safety as back before seat belts, passengers were fracturing their skulls on the wooden version in crash and so they fitted a padded one covered in vinyl. The Daimler 2 1/2 Litre V8 did have a wooden one and as it happens I do have one from one of those cars which was beyond repair. I bought it for its engine as my car’s block had been cracked by frost (though it still ran fine). I have the whole wood set from it if the woodworm have not got to it.

As to veneering the padded one, surely there is not enough rigidity to do that. I don’t think you would like to see ‘sticky backed plastic’ in your car even if it did have a woodgrain pattern though that would be an easy change. By the way the wood dashboards were made in sets where the left and right sides (and probably the top too) are mirror imaged in the grain of the veneer. Same with the door tops. Not that the changes to make the V8-250 were all about safety, having dismantled both (one to scrap one to restore), I could see a few places where the cost accountants had trimmed manufacturing costs.

Roger Holmes
Daimler V8-250 x2, Daimler Super V8 x2, Jaguar XJ6, Rover (P5) 3 Litre x2, Land Rover series 2a One Ton 109inch 6 cylinder petrol, BMW 528i x2, 1962 ICT1301 mainframe computer and a wartime R.A.F. 10kVA 3-phase diesel generator which used to power the computer.On 17 Nov 2011, at 18:34, christopher storey wrote:

In reply to a message from Roger Holmes sent Fri 11 Nov 2011:

Roger : it sounds as though someone has changed your 250 top dash (
the one which goes right across the car) for one from a Mark 2. The
240/250/340 all originally had a padded insert there similar to
that in the 420G

christopher storey

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