Dash Frame Work

["amc74hornet" <amc74hornet@xxxx>]

Before feeling really ill yesterday I attempted to remove the minor warpage from the top of the dash frame by clamping a piece of 3/4 balister to it and heating it up with a hair drier. Didn't work. I need to get piece of 1/2"X 3/4" or 3/4'X 3/4" square plexiglass to glue to the underside of the dash to make it straight. Unfortunately my plexiglass supplier has closed up, so now I have to find another on. After trying to remove the warpage I realized why they warp like they do on each side. In the very middle of the top part of the dash is a re-enforcment with studs on it to mount the defroster ducts. From the end of the defroser ducts where the re-enforcement ends to the end of the dash on each side is where it warps. If I can just find the plexiglass I need this should be an easy fix. The one crack is fixed and I started to sand the lower section of the dash. It appears to have been painted so I am sanding off the old paint. I don't think this was a factory paint job as my 2 Hornets have the plastic the color the color of the interior. Even with a little more work the new dash frame is way more easy to repair than the cracked all over, warped, cooked original one that is in the car now which will probably crumble when I remove it. I remember John Elle telling me ho found a decent dash down by him in Arizona. He carefully took it out, went to pay for it and after paying for it he dropped it on his way out to his car. It shattered into a million pieces from being so brittle from the suns UV rays. Needless to say he was pissed.
"Doc"