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Originally Posted by slk320
Can't wait to see more. Whats with the wrong dashboard? Is it that the dashboard was molded incorrectly by the kit manuf. or that this is a different dashboard from another car?
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Wrong BMW altogether.
Here's the best of the crappy pics I took of the kit part (semi-painted):
I have a couple hundred 507 reference pics, and all the dash boards look like this:
(that's the basic interior scheme I'm using, BTW, except blue carpet instead of tan.)
During my search for 507 pics, I figured out the only pic I had where the dash looked [remotely] like the kit part was this one:
However, going back to the source for that pic, I found this zoomed-out pic of the same car, which revealed that it clearly is not a 507, though it did happen to be parked next to one, which is how I found the page in the first place:
A few details or knobs are missing or fudged, but it's about a 90% match for the dash in the red car. Turns out the other car is a BMW 503, which, according to bmwworld.com, "was not as elegant [as the 507] and was more expensive." The thing is, I don't know if they ever made a 503 kit. I think they just looked at the wrong car when they made the master...