So confusing

[BRENT in 10-uh-C]

After reading several posts recently, I often shake my head and wonder what some folks use to determine the proper name for an item on the Ford Model-A. For example, would someone 'in the know' please tell me which one of these letters in the picture below is what Ford called the Dash Assy.

[Jemelton#]

I vote for "B"

[MickeyT]

B gets my vote. It's just way smaller than we are used to.

[denniskliesen]

A is dash, B is instrument panel.

[Oldbluoval]

"A is dash, B is instrument panel." But not sure I'm a "in the know" guy!!!!

Agreed

[redmodelt]

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A dash rail b instrument panel. I am not sure if those are correct because I do not have the Ford parts book in front of me. The proper name is what Ford called them, which is ?

[lindy williams]

"B" is called the instrument panel.

[1928Mik]

Lindy is correct...

[Jim M]

Interesting. I don't know if the panel that the instruments are on is part of the "A" - but that is what I would call the "dash board". I agree the "B" is the instrument panel.

[JRShaw]

"B" would be called the instrument cluster -or- instrument panel IMHO. Just sayin, guys.

[160B]

A - Dashrail - RG&JS page 12-18 Revised 2016

B - Instrument panel - RG&JS page 6-1 Revised 2016

[Tom Wesenberg]

Speaking of calling parts by their right name, every book and every person I know of has always called the rod that connects the pitman arm to the steering arm, the DRAG LINK. Go onto the Studebaker site, and they guys will jump all over you and say "no, it's the reach rod". Oh well, it's still a drag link in my book.

[FRANK PKNY]

A would go witha

[H. L. Chauvin]

A. The original French word for an automobile Dashboard found in older dictionaries may seem odd today.

B. In Model T and old cars English manuals a fender is called a mud guard; in French, auto manuals, a mud guard is <une garde-boue>.

C. Next, all European horse drawn buggies had a vertical panel placed on the front of buggies near one's feet to prevent horse manure from falling into one's buggy, so this panel, in French, was called <une garde-crotte>, or a nicer English translation, a manure guard.

D. Some of the first experimental European cars were made with buggies where the instruments were installed on the buggy's front vertical panel; hence, it became known in English as a Dash Board; but in French, the dash board, was referred to as <une garde-crotte>.

E. Seems if one ever travels to old French Indo-China, old French Equatorial Africa, Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Morroco, the old former Belgium Congo, Belgium, parts of Lebanon, France and other areas, these Model A owners would very probably select the above picture "A" for the correct Dashboard.

But, just a Semi-World-Wide experience and opinion if one wants to check it out while traveling.

[Tom Wesenberg]

A is the dash.

Here's another example: the condenser is more correctly called a capacitor, but will always be known as a condenser to most car people.
Any why isn't the coil called by it's correct name, a transformer?
In electronics a coil can be anything from a choke to an air core turn of a few windings of wire.

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

If you HAVEN'T worked in the automobile repair trade, it's HARD to use the proper TERMINOLOGY.
Bill W.

[mike657894]

I say A. I would call it a dash panel and then a gauge pod. but as far as what I name things if I dont have the proper name i just type out what will hopefully communicate what I mean so someone can correct me.

[duke36]

Ford's original Instruction Book that came with the cars called 'B' simply the "Instrument Panel".

[BRENT in 10-uh-C]

Originally Posted by 160B

A - Dashrail - RG&JS page 12-18 Revised 2016

B - Instrument panel - RG&JS page 6-1 Revised 2016

Actually, even the nomenclature in the RG&JS is incorrect on A. The proper name for that piece is the Rail (Belt -Front) or Front Belt Rail Panel. You are correct on the A-11805 panel.


As for the proper location of the A-35328-* Dash Assembly, open the PDF file below.


Thanks for playing along everyone, and hope you found this educational!
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[CHuDWah]

Originally Posted by BRENT in 10-uh-C

As for the proper location of the A-35328-* Dash Assembly, open the PDF file below.

Nah, that's the firewall.