alexob53

Hi everyone,
I am planning on selling my 84 soon and I have been restoring the dash over the past couple of months. It is an early brown dash filled, fiberglassed, and covered in vinyl. I was wondering if installing the dash is worth it (will it increase the value as much as if I were to just sell it on this forum). Thanks for your input!

Alex

V2Rocket

pics?
id think itd be worth more in the car to the prospective buyer than what you might get here.

odonnell

Pics of vinyl over the fiberglass?

Arominus

Install it, its worth more in the car with everything in it. If its gone, the new buyer has to find one and that will pretty much suck for them. Your selling price for the car will suffer greatly for it.

Don't get greedy and screw the car's new owner for a quick buck.

Jfrahm

A car with no dash in it, I think would be a parts car and not worth much.

What's you car worth as a parts car with no dash?
What's the rebuilt dash worth? $250?
What's your time worth to re-install the dash
What's the car worth in one piece?

Do the math.

odonnell

I think his car would still have a normal cracked dash installed, I was with Alex when we pulled this dash out of an 83 in a Belton junkyard and started restoring it. His 944 still had a dash installed.

alexob53

Working on getting pics up. And yeah I still have the original badly cracked dash in there.

Jfrahm

Ahh. " I have been restoring the dash over the past couple of months" does not sound like a spare dash that is out of the car.

I suppose if the car is otherwise really nice, the dash might really stand out as a turn-off. If the car has other issues then it'd probably not worth it. Option 3 is to put a dash cap on it and sell the dash under restoration, less work than the above. These caps can look pretty good IMO.