Final Touches: The Dashboard Doctor Challenge, Part III.
Notice anything missing? This, sadly, is the current state of the Upper Middle Petrol Head Galant: a big, shiny red expanse where the beautifully restored dash-pad should be. And, yes, there is a beautifully restored dash-pad that could be covering all that red you see before you. The only problem is, the xxxxing thing doesn't fit! It's shrunk, you see, and so far all efforts to rectify the problem have failed ... . Those of you that have read Parts I & II will remember that the first dash-pad that was sent to Melbourne for restoration - at not inconsiderable cost, it has to be said - had shrunk and warped to the point that it wasn't considered usable. Therefore, a second dash-pad was retrieved from a secret cache in Tasmania's deep south. This second dash-pad wasn't perfect, either, but the Dashboard Doctor reviewed some emailed photos and said that it looked OK (please refer to Part II). It was d...