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Dash Exchange Exchange dash fascia service for HR to HG Holden. Restoration service for early Holden, Ford and Chrysler plastic dash fascias.

Australia Post, you've excelled 🖕Allan's one piece heater fascia with AC upgrade was delivered to him in two pieces. Unf...
28/08/2026

Australia Post, you've excelled 🖕

Allan's one piece heater fascia with AC upgrade was delivered to him in two pieces. Unfortunately, neither he OR us are overly impressed by that. That's not really the end result after many, many hours of modifications and restoration, that we wanted to achieve.
(We were pretty happy with how it turned out thanks, no further modifications were required.)

Considering we use oversized cartons, literally metres of bubble wrap and additional packaging to prevent such things from happening, you've gone above and beyond to achieve this result. I'm reasonably confident that all of our customers can attest, we package their components well.

To turn many hours of passion, dedication, skill and restoration into a two piece worthless piece of s**t in worse condition than when it was sent to us, we'd like to pass on our gratitude to you, Australia Post, your contractors and EVERYONE who had a part in delivering this package.....

F**K YOU VERY MUCH 🖕😡🖕

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A VH Chrysler AC fascia we recently completed.A lot of detail in such a little piece.
26/08/2026

A VH Chrysler AC fascia we recently completed.

A lot of detail in such a little piece.

Stripping out a bunch of HT HG instruments and they never disappoint. Some people do some weird things.Someone has had a...
26/08/2026

Stripping out a bunch of HT HG instruments and they never disappoint. Some people do some weird things.

Someone has had a go at winding the clock back and turned the odometer into a jumbled mess.
Yes that shaft and gears are fiddly to get to align but they really do serve a purpose. A bit more patience and you probably would have got it 👌

As for the person who lost a nut that ended up in the tacho workings, I hope you don't work on carburettors 😬

Then there's the nail polished needles, texta coloured in faceplates.

They had a go 👌

A couple of HK tachos recently completed.Chris' 307 is running a completely stock set up with points ignition so he opte...
22/08/2026

A couple of HK tachos recently completed.

Chris' 307 is running a completely stock set up with points ignition so he opted to leave the original circuit board. It was recalibrated with a complete facelift.

Jordan's copped the whole treatment. Full overhaul with a new digital circuit board, suitable for points, HEI & CDI ignition systems. We also upgraded it to LED illumination 👌

We can either restore your original HK tacho for you or supply a restoration kit for you to DIY at home. Kits include new housing, lens, bezel and faceplate.

Shoot us a message if you're interested.

Instrument decal kits are in stock and available for DIY instrument refacing.Available for HT HG Belmont, Kingswood, Mon...
13/08/2026

Instrument decal kits are in stock and available for DIY instrument refacing.

Available for

HT HG
Belmont, Kingswood, Monaro, GTS, Premier and Brougham in 120/140 MPH, 2 & 3 speed auto. VDO instruments only.

HK
Belmont, Kingswood, Monaro, GTS, Premier and Brougham in 120/140 MPH and 200 KPH. Suit 4/68 onwards for VDO instruments.

Belmont, Kingswood, Premier in green to suit pre 4/68 VDO instruments.

Belmont, Kingswood and Monaro instrument fascias.

GTS tacho restoration kits. Includes new housing, lens, faceplate and bezel.

LC LJ

Under dash and heater fascias.

HKTG and LC/J

K**b rings.

XR XT Falcon.

4 piece instrument set.

All are in stock and available now. HKTG products are also available from Hk Ht Hg Parts and Panels

08/08/2026

We've been playing with diecast for many months now and these are the first results.

This is NOT a service that we are currently providing. It's something we're currently testing. These will be fitted to a mates cars so we can monitor how they hold up over time. As diecast is known for, these could explode with corrosion and bubble up in no time, or not ever.
Time will tell.

This post isn't to advertise tail light housings, it's to show we're working on other things, trying and testing new methods AND waiting to see how things hold up with time.

IF we do go ahead with this as a service, it won't be until late 2027. It won't be cheap. It's incredibly labour intensive and expensive.

Please don't message us about pricing or availability, these are not available, we're just testing new things......

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HK Kingswood and Belmont instrument fascia inserts.Perfect for the fascia that has had holes drilled for switches, light...
15/07/2026

HK Kingswood and Belmont instrument fascia inserts.

Perfect for the fascia that has had holes drilled for switches, lights, push buttons etc. Previously, we've had to have the customer source another fascia.

These are made from our textured black vinyl and are ideal for covering those drilled holes.

Available with and without CHOKE lettering and hole.

Available direct from us and Hk Ht Hg Parts and Panels

Some custom console woodgrain inserts for those running aftermarket ratchet shifters in manual consoles and those who fi...
15/07/2026

Some custom console woodgrain inserts for those running aftermarket ratchet shifters in manual consoles and those who fit a full length console to column shift vehicles.

We can supply these in HK, HT type woodgrain, satin black woodgrain and textured black. (The textured black is also great for base model Monaro inserts that have had holes drilled in them)

In stock and available now.

Also available from Hk Ht Hg Parts and Panels

The instrument cluster you would have had fitted to your new HK Belmont if you ticked the Big Block option at the dealer...
13/07/2026

The instrument cluster you would have had fitted to your new HK Belmont if you ticked the Big Block option at the dealership 😁

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Saturday afternoon shed sessions watching Nitro Funny Cars on TV and stripping, repairing and prepping plastic when we n...
04/07/2026

Saturday afternoon shed sessions watching Nitro Funny Cars on TV and stripping, repairing and prepping plastic when we noticed this.

Sean's pair of HKTG short consoles ready to go in the acid, when we noticed the different masking lines between the two.

Have never seen the mask line on the left console before, all of the ones we've done have been the same as the one on the right.
Also, the one on the left has had carpet glued in the bottom like a full length console. Haven't seen that before either....

Another thing we've noticed lately with these is that a few of them we've stripped appear to have been repainted, from what we believe is by the factory. Our acids and other chemicals remove most paints, but won't touch the paint as used by GM-H. So we can see what colour it was, what colour it became and also whatever rattle can respray it's had in its life.

Can anyone identify the colours by model? (Our identification is one's blue, the other isn't) They both appear to be the same blue originally, with the gold one repainted.

We "assume" different assembly plants, same as the long consoles being either black or interior colour????

Any rivet counters have any thoughts? It's not something that interests or bothers us too much, but if someone's dropping $200+K on a Premier resto, we can mask it a little differently for them when we mask and paint it.

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