Once you make a wooden dashboard, using for instance Scott's instructions, you
will need to attach it to your Mini. Michael Heinzelmann was kind
enough to provide some instructions:
There are several possibilites:
You can make some nice little sheet metall brackets and screw
them onto the upper and lower rail and then screw the
dashboard from the front with 4 or 6 screws onto those
brackets.
The way Rover is doing it is very nice. The have two studs on
the left, in the middle and the right. Over those studs goes a
thick U-bracket which clamps onto the upper and lower
dashrail. They are secured with wing-nuts (right word??) and
you can undo them very easily without tools.
It looks like this:
d rail:
a ||
s ||
h || -----\
| \\--- | <-U-bracket
| |
|--------------------|-OO
|--------------------|-OO (nut)
| |
| |
| |
|--------------------|-OO
|--------------------|-OO
| |
| |
| //--- |
|| -----/
||
||
On my last Mini I had the dashboard secured with a few little
pieces of sheet metall which were only bend over the upper and
lower rail. It works.