[DeTomaso] My prototype interior

David fisher95020 at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 17 16:26:34 EDT 2012


Guilty as charged :-) 

We're at Concorso Italian today.   Eye candy everywhere!   I'll post some pics over the weekend 

David

Dave Londry <davel at emspace.com> wrote:

>Looks - to me like you were having fun doing it.
>Is that legal?
>
>dave
>
>On 16/08/2012 3:50 PM, David D Fisher wrote:
>> Thanks Gary.
>>   
>> I'll probably give it a break for while and drive it and then get back to finishing in a month or two at which point I'll seek your learnings on the actuators.   Worst case is to program a Arduino and some servo motors, but I expect with that tiny interior I only really need fully open and fully closed on the vents..   I have a servo water valve already.
>>   
>> David
>>   
>>
>> ________________________________
>>   From: "gow2 at rc-tech.net" <gow2 at rc-tech.net>
>> To: David D Fisher <fisher95020 at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: Pantera mailing list <detomaso at realbig.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 3:33 PM
>> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] My prototype interior
>>    
>> Very Cool!
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Here's a few shots of my interpretation of  what a 72 Pantera interior
>>> would look if the designer wasn't constained to the Ford and Alfa parts
>>> and trying to get a tape deck in there somewhere.
>>>
>>> I felt the Veglia gauges are the strong design point in the car and hence
>>> wanted to highlight them.  I also wanted to tilt the gauges towards the
>>> driver per the original design (this makes for some interesting angles to
>>> get the eye to like it).
>>>
>>> I also moved the window switches onto the tunnel, which makes for
>>> some houdini wiring to clear the shift linkage, but it seems like a better
>>> placement, especially for the passenger.
>>>
>>> Lastly,  I added one more little bucket in the tunnel as a phone / wallet
>>> holder.   Music will be mostly courtesy of Ford, but there will be an iPod
>>> jack in the wallet try wired to an Amp hidden somewhere?
>>>
>>>
>>> You have to use a little imagination for the final version.
>>>
>>> Imagine the center tunnel and dash finished in leather to match the seats
>>> and a little more tweaking on the fit and finish and removal of the
>>> hideous cover in between the two vents.
>>>
>>> Heater controls will be via electric actuators.  The stock A/C control is
>>> behind the rightmost knob.  I have two "courtesy switches", one of which
>>> is not currently used.
>>>
>>> I'm open to thoughts on how to make it better.  I may duplicate the french
>>> seam with the yellow stitch on the seats up along the tunnel and up the
>>> sides of the console... still debating that.  That dash is going to be a
>>> challenge to do in leather and I was hoping the vinyl and leather could
>>> live together, but they dont very well and I have to do something about
>>> the rather ugly "seatbelt warning tacked on" cover between the vents.
>>>
>>>
>>> Just the console:
>>>
>>> http://poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=37045
>>>
>>> http://poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=37051
>>>
>>>
>>> The making of:
>>>
>>> http://poca.com/index.php/gallery/?g2_itemId=36764
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> David
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