[Kevin W]

I used to have a wooden dash, and like most things on my car, decided the job had to be done again after the first attempt. The fibreglass dash is probably more work to get it trimed and fitting nicely, but IMHO it looks a lot nicer, but each to his own.

Your seller was probably refering to the fact that Pilgrim used to use Philips screws and screw cups which were externally drilled though the dash and into the scuttle lip. These are not SVA friendly. However, its perfectly possible to use the SVA friendly 'hidden screw' method on a ply dash as well as a fibreglass one - as demonstrated in 'A car is born' video. The main thing is that you must put a layer of sponge over the dash (and the screws) and then cover with vynil or leather, so that there is a soft finish to it. You'll also need to make sure you recess the instrument dials if you have the standard ETB Pilgrim kit, which have non-compliant bezels. If you have instrument bezels with the new rounded section then no need to recesss these.

HTH


Kevin W.