Toggle switch flip-covers...(.53 cents each)

Toggle switch safety covers in a variety of colors.
http://www.mpja.com/prodinfo.asp?number=16100+SW

I've always loved the look of a bank of those switches on the dash of a race car. Very fighter-pilot-outlaw chic.

But then I look at speedys dash:

One pull-push for headlights/dashlights.

One pull-push for windshield wipers - but I haven't even had wiper arms on the car for maybe seven years now! Just two acorn nuts on the cowl.

One toggle hidden under the dash for a courtsey light - which I don't even remember when I used it last.

So what does anyone else wire to these great looking switches?

I've got two toggles on the dash, and one on a small aluminum panel underneath.

The dash toggles are for the Accusump and an oil cooler fan override. The one under the dash? That'd be for the exhaust cut-out valve (heh, heh, heh).

David, I use those for master power, fuel pump, headlights/taillights, and fog lights/marker lights in the headlight buckets.
The work on a flat aluminum dash. I don't know how they would do on a nicer-overall car, though. They're pretty industrial.

Cory - one outlaw to another - that was a trick statement ..... right?

"... a nicer overall car ....."

Cory, I've never seen your car, except in pictures on this website. From everyone's comments who have seen it, there seems to be more than a few, including myself, who think you have a rather bitchin over all car.

IMHO some girls look nice in cosmetics and a cocktail dress, other girls are nicer lookin over all in jeans and a t-shirt. To coin a phrase, it's the eye of the beholder.

Have you ever seen a grown woman naked.....?

(kinda lifted from that old "Airplane" movie line...)

Scott -- good find! I'll probably be in the market for one more of those covers; I might like to put one in for my electric cooling fan sooner or later (it's on a thermostatic switch right now). Those are exactly what I have.

David, that was FUNNY!
If the Sloppy Jalopy was ever considered "nice," ... uh ... I'd be shocked. Radical, maybe, but not well-dressed.

The switches would probably look okay on your dash, if there was a location where they'd be set off by themselves in a group. Thinking about it, I'd balance the number of switches against how busy the rest of the dashboard is; if you had as many gauges in your JPS as a CMC came with, for example, there'd be so many dials and so much visual information going on that switches would be needless clutter.
Since you probably don't have sixteen useless, white-faced gauges, you could probably put three or four switches in a sensible location easily reached with either hand.
(Seriously; CMC dash setups make E-type Jaguar dashboards appear to make sense. I used to get a headache searching for my spedmeter; I have now over-simplified.)
If the switches were going to functionally replace the knobs that are already there in your car, you'd have some patch-and-fill to do that might leave the dash a little more Spartan than most -- provided you put the switches close together.
If you do use the Chinese guys Scott linked to, check that they're marked and cut correctly. When I installed the switch plate covers, "on" was key-cut for "off," and vice versa. They had to be monkeyed with a little to function.
I do kinda like flipping them at startup and shut-down; gives it a little bit of a race-car feel. And, bonus, if you really DO need to kill the ignition or the power to the fuel pump, you CAN. Very handy, I'd imagine.
Thankfully, I haven't had to test the theory.

Cory said:

"Seriously; CMC dash setups make E-type Jaguar dashboards appear to make sense".

HAH, now that there was funny - I don't car who you are!

I wondered if anyone would be amused by that. I would've bet money on a CMC owner ... ;)