Winter Interior and Dash Project Completed on SPF MKII

[caccobra]

I want to thank armrer, Blas, MarkIV and mickmate for all of their invaluable help throughout this project, without whose direction, encouragement and guidance I would not have been able to complete this. This is especially true with armrer, who I know I drove crazy with a million questions at all hours of the day and night. He never complained and was always ready with the information and assistance I needed. He had been there before on all of this with his car and was more than willing to share his experience and knowledge to see me through the process. It was fun to do during the long winter months here in New England and It was rewarding in the results. Thanks guys. You are the best!

[xb-60]

Congratulations, and a job well done. Your weather should soon be improving, so enjoy the driving!

Cheers,
Glen

[Ivygreen65]

Who did your quartz clock conversion, or did you find a kit?

[caccobra]

Originally Posted by Ivygreen65

Who did your quartz clock conversion, or did you find a kit?

North Hollywood Speedometer did the restoration and conversion of the clock (https://www.nhspeedometer.com/). No one makes a kit for it. Before sending the clock to them I had the front half of the case chromed, since Cobra clocks had a chrome bezel, the Ford Galaxie version did not. Shelby used the 1962 Ford Galaxie 500XL dash clock in place of the clock that AC originally supplied, because the UK clocks were very unreliable. The Galaxie clocks weren’t much better and that is why most owners have them converted to a quartz movement. North Hollywood Speedometer is used by original Cobra owners on the west coast, so they are very familiar with how to convert them. armrer recommended them to me, since he had used them to convert his clock. They did a great job on it.

I actually sent them two clocks to convert, but the crystal on the other one was too far gone to save. If someone has a good original crystal, I have a clock that already has the case chromed I can part with for what I have in it, if that helps anyone. These original clocks are getting harder and harder to find these days.

The other clock is the one on the left in the picture.