Been busy the last couple of nights so I haven't done much other than the following.
I pulled the dash support and surrounding pieces. They're covered with surface rust. I'm probably being a bit anal about this but I've worked on/around enough older cars that I have an instinctive reaction whenever I see rust.
Basically I cleaned them up with some wire brushes/rotary tools. Strictly speaking if you're using the right kind of paint you can just paint over this stuff, but again, I'm being anal.
Couple of thick coats of rustoleum, and they're ready to go back into the car.
More to come shortly.