Thanks for all the replies. I am considering the options and thinking about the coverlay dashcover, but worry about the fit, margins and color match cause I have heard they don't match the blue color so well.

Anyway, I want to consider the possibility of replacing the dashboard myself with a replacement from a donor car. I am crazy to think there is an uncracked BLUE dashboard out there on a donor car that someone is willing to part with for a w123 (mine is a 1983 300TD)???

I am committed to undertaking some project for this car to make it look as good as possible. Replacing the dash is something I might be willing to invest in, if one is available out there. I really like the car and have sunk $$$$ (read much much more than the value of the car) out of love for it. It's maintained well, but being that it lived in Las Vegas and Los Angeles the first 20 years of life it has the cracks of the BLUE dashboard!.

Can a black dashboard possibly be painted blue and look like a match?

I'm fishing for solutions....