Early bay dashboard

[Tricksum]

Hi.When was the very last bay delivered with a dashboard painted the same colour as the body?

 

[ozziedog]

Oooohhhhhh that’s a hard one :shock: :shock: :shock: :?

Ozziedog,,,, does you know :?: :?: :?: :mrgreen:

 

[lemur]

11:53-Friday-12th May-1969 :lol:
Sorry, Just dicking around, I'd imagine that's a hard one to pin down... lots of variables :?
That said, you're asking in the right place!

Liam

 

[Tricksum]

Hilarious

 

[Clem]

Painted dashboards were standard Euro spec until 1973? model year when they became black crackle paint. I think.

 

[sparkywig]

The dash was changed from a painted to black crackle finish at the start of 1974 MY (August 1973), so the last painted dash would be a July 1973 build.
But the last body colour dash would be July 1969, from 1970 MY (August 1969) the dash would be painted black.
All US/Canadian buses had the M511 padded dash option, which was available as an extra cost option for LHD buses in the rest of the world as well.