{"id":306,"date":"2011-08-09T13:10:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T08:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mogrod.com\/?p=306"},"modified":"2011-08-09T23:37:38","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T18:37:38","slug":"mad-dash-to-the-finish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mogrod.com\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"Mad dash to the finish!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230; not so mad, really&#8230; and the finish is far from in sight&#8230; but I did start pulling the dash and all its parts off the Solstice!<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;boomerang&#8217;, as it&#8217;s called, was the main goal for the night. It&#8217;s the darker colored main insert \/ section of the car&#8217;s dash. The posts on the forum about how tense it can be removing that piece weren&#8217;t kidding. I&#8217;ve got a number of people interested in buying it off me, and every *pop* and potential *break* noise had dollar signs flying away in my mind. Fortunately, the worry was for naught, as the whole thing came out eventually, and in one piece!<\/p>\n<p>I also removed the factory stereo, the &#8216;passenger grip&#8217;, the trim and bezel around the gauges, and the shifter knob \/ trim \/ bezel. I took plenty of photos of those pieces, but no point in posting them here, it&#8217;s mainly for when I go to sell the parts. I did take one photo of the resulting carnage to post up here, and you can compare to the previous day&#8217;s photo to get an idea of how much I removed. I&#8217;d really like to get the whole dash out soon and start selling off those pieces.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I noticed was that the headlamp controls are on the steering column. One of the things I&#8217;d like to do is carry over the &#8216;automatic headlamps&#8217; to the Morgan so that they come on&#8230; automatically.. when it gets dark. I&#8217;m going to have to dig into this some more, I might be able to jumper that option to always be on, and just have an alternate switch for the headlamps to manually turn them on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mogrod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_20110809_004206.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[306]\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-307\" title=\"The carnage!\" src=\"http:\/\/mogrod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/IMG_20110809_004206-100x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230; not so mad, really&#8230; and the finish is far from in sight&#8230; but I did start pulling the dash and all its parts off the Solstice! The &#8216;boomerang&#8217;, as it&#8217;s called, was the main goal for the night. It&#8217;s &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mogrod.com\/?p=306\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mogrod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mogrod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mogrod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mogrod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mogrod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mogrod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/mogrod.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mogrod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mogrod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mogrod.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}