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The Whiter Side:


SWAPPING OLD, BLACK GAUGES


FOR A BRIGHTER LOOK


Here    we  are at  the start.  Even    after   cleaning    the bezels, polishing
the pieces and freshening the chrome with Eastwood’s Liquid
Chrome, the old yellowed dash gauges made this dash look dated.
Fresh white gauges would make this cluster a pure knockout on my
little Barracuda.

By Scott Lachenauer


ell, I’m getting pretty far along on the hard, dusty trail of a full-
blown restoration on my little ‘A’ Body Barracuda. There’s no
turning back now, as I’ve stuffed all of my malnourished bank account
into the body parts of my little fish car, turning once beaten panels into
straightened steel, and beefing up a once sullen uni-body into a
masculine, big-boned Mopar Whip. And as the gray primer metal turns
to metallic turquoise blue in front of my eyes, I see a very small Bic light
at the end of this very expansive tunnel I’ve been traveling through for
the last year or so....D-Day (driving day) will be coming soon.

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