First year for one-piece dash?
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Le Mans Master
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First year for one-piece dash?
I know 78 has a one piece dash and I believe 77 had the one piece dash...but would like to confirm.
Check your cars...if you've got screws on the passenger side dash...you've got what's considered the two piece.
So...77 owners confirm your configuration
76ers...what's ya got?
Thanks
Check your cars...if you've got screws on the passenger side dash...you've got what's considered the two piece.
So...77 owners confirm your configuration
76ers...what's ya got?
Thanks
Team Owner
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Re: First year for one-piece dash? (hunt4cleanair)
Yes, as I recall, 78 was first year for one piece dash, and flat side gauges....separate dash top and round gauges for '77 and earlier...
frankly I like the early design better....for one thing that plastic center console wit those a/c controlls is a mess in the later one's....
not that the earlier one's with that plastic console piece are much better, but at least with a bit of work and talent, there is 1/2 a hope there....
that later plastic squared off design withthe rug sides is an assembly nitemare full of broken plastic mountings, props devised for holding the a/c swithc in place....and rugs are nearly impossible to get back in place....line up holes....mess.....
even my '72 with that ebrake console cover, with the p/window switches in it....the stock one was an abortion....I replaced it with one of the earliest heavy fibercast castings from a repro company found at a Carlyle show....
early castings had a few imperfections in them....not that it bothered me much....works fine, and doesn't break.....
GENE
frankly I like the early design better....for one thing that plastic center console wit those a/c controlls is a mess in the later one's....
not that the earlier one's with that plastic console piece are much better, but at least with a bit of work and talent, there is 1/2 a hope there....
that later plastic squared off design withthe rug sides is an assembly nitemare full of broken plastic mountings, props devised for holding the a/c swithc in place....and rugs are nearly impossible to get back in place....line up holes....mess.....
even my '72 with that ebrake console cover, with the p/window switches in it....the stock one was an abortion....I replaced it with one of the earliest heavy fibercast castings from a repro company found at a Carlyle show....
early castings had a few imperfections in them....not that it bothered me much....works fine, and doesn't break.....
GENE
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Re: First year for one-piece dash? (hunt4cleanair)
If you've got a 77...lOOk and confirm. It will have map pockets but does it have two screws or is molded into the dash pad.
