If you are buying a MiniITX board, get one with LVDS TFT LCD video out onboard. Then you don't have to buy a monitor - you can buy a bare LCD panel to suit and run it straight off the motherboard. This will be a lot cheaper than an LCD monitor of equivalent specs, and you'll have a much wider choice of sizes, form factors, and resolutions.

Get a full list of supported panels from the MiniITX vendor before purchase if possible, and then do a bit of ebay searching. You can probably find a cheap suitable panel as a laptop spare part - you might even have a suitable panel lying around the workshop.

Avoid the in-car DVD type monitors They have much lower specs than computer monitors in general.

on the Color Classics as a piece of Plexiglas, curved over the LCD makes it look authentic.

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Have you done this? Do you have pics, especially pics from various angles?

but in each case that rules out touch screens

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Unless you use a separate touchscreen overlay kit and fix it to the Plexi