Dash/instrument panels?
Dash/instrument panels?
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Mr Tank

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5,799 posts

305 months

Tuesday 7th August 2012
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Hi

I have just been looking at the pics of the beast and it made me think how many panels did TVR do for the wedge?

The Bible as usual just gives a brief inaccurate description of the differant types.

Just from my pics of the wedges I have owned I have these differant ones.

How many other types were there?







Early Tasmin/280i (Above)





350i S1 (Above)





350i S2 (above)





280i S3 (Above)





450 SEAC (Above) The differance between the 280i S3 and SEAC dash is just the heater controls!





400SE and later SEACs (Above)







The beast dash and switches!


Andy

Edited by Mr Tank on Tuesday 7th August 17:58

adam quantrill

11,679 posts

272 months

Tuesday 7th August 2012
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Andy - is this another angle for collecting more Wedges (gotta get all the dash tyles, don't ya know...)

When you say the Bible gives only a brief description, well Steve H had all the parts catalogue (from me) but the drawings in that alone are twice as many pages than the Bible! So obviously it had to e severly edited and only a few percent of the drawings (especially variations) were used at the time.

My parts catalogue has 3 diagrams of different dashes up to 1984 and there must have been many more after that.

Plus LHS and RSH variants ;^)

Incidentally I saw my notes against Fuego lights and they were £29 new from the Renault dealers many years ago...

Wedg1e

27,040 posts

295 months

Wednesday 8th August 2012
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adam quantrill said:
Incidentally I saw my notes against Fuego lights and they were £29 new from the Renault dealers many years ago...
It must have been a good number of years ago, I paid £80 for a pair from my local Renault dealer in about 1999!

adam quantrill

11,679 posts

272 months

Wednesday 8th August 2012
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Tha t woulda been 29 plus vat each no not too different really...

Hamish400

276 posts

287 months

Thursday 9th August 2012
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Andy,

The later SE centre panel (5 dials across the top) also came in left hand and right hand versions (heater switch location etc mirrored).

I guess it depended which side of the metal panel was "up" when they welded on the securing studs at the back!!

Rgds
Hamish

Mr Tank

Original Poster:

5,799 posts

305 months

Thursday 9th August 2012
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Hamish

Thanks for that info! Your explanation would be TVR to a T

Andy