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Juan --- no, the bar at the top of the (front) panels is a special piece that is made by some special process (I don't know what the process is) and the dash and other parts are also this same "bonded" material (Mercedes does the same thing and probably other car mfg.s) I've cut into it and find it to be a thin plastic-type material shell sorta "painted-on" to a yellow hard-foam backing which was initially sprayed onto a metal plate form (obviously this is done in a mold of some kind).
So, IMHO you have 3 choices: Buy a new part if yours is really shot; Touchup with leather-dye; Attempt to recover in some material (I've used leather) but then you have to be prepared for some realistic-looking stitching joins since you will have some "corners" that simply don't have any way to let you fold the excess over and glue it down.
I remember the 76 Turbos (and maybe standard model "options" as well) had leather dashes and other "cornered" parts that had this beautiful stitching at those corners but I've also seen the effects of the sun shrinking the leather in years afterward and it ain't pretty. You're probably better to go with method 1 or 2 in those areas and parts.
[This message has been edited by tog (edited 11-01-2000).]
[This message has been edited by tog (edited 11-01-2000).]
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