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tadslc
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 Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2015 2:07 pm Post subject: '73-74 Dash Question -WHY? |
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I saw this ad in the classifieds from member consvws.
Why did someone cut out the spot where the speaker was located?
Mine is the same way and I'm wondering why?
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60ragtop
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speaker
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I've restored a large number too, but I don't toot my horn quite as loud.
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tadslc
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| Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2015 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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I understand the speaker went there originally behind a perfectly good dash, but why cut up the dash?
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60ragtop
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the million $ question, why did the PO do( --------------------- )because it was just a clapped $50 POS
IIRC it was perforated originally so maybe it disintegrated.
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Rick
Certified Mechanic by the State of Michigan in 1977
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I've restored a large number too, but I don't toot my horn quite as loud.
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Volks Wagen
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| IIRC it was perforated originally so maybe it disintegrated. |
Disintigrated my bollix, that was ate by dashboard maggots.
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tadslc
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I know way to much about the dreaded PO. Should have really taken that into consideration when posing my question.
But then I get thrown a curve and suggestions with viable reasons, disintegration or dash board maggots, understood. Oh well....
I'll figure out someway to hide it from my wife.
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Danpa
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Well, my guesses would be....
1.) Too low for a gage of some kind. Couldn't see it.
2.) Blew out the old speaker listening to Deep Purple "Burn" on the radio, too loud, (REAL easy to do) and couldn't figure out how to remove it.
3.) Hacked in a spot for the Pioneer Super tuner cassette player and FM converter. (So he could play Deep Purple "Burn" loud enough to blow out the Jensen Co-Ax's he stuffed behind the back seat)
Probably #3
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hitest
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The dash looks okay to me, but when I look at your hepcat kitchen floor, I ask "Why?"
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I wonder what the nut looks like.
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Danpa
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| The dash looks okay to me, but when I look at your hepcat kitchen floor, I ask "Why?" |
HEPCAT!  |
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tadslc
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Not my floor hitest!
But to each their own...
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tadslc
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I'm trying to find a small bin or ??? to fill up the hole
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hitest
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Not my floor hitest!
But to each their own... |
Well then, who's floor is it? Please tell me you're not parting out your SB at Gramma's house! 
I'll have to see if your defense of using the set of "Good Times" as a photo backdrop constitutes a threadjack...
In related news though, visit your local car stereo joint. They all have a box in the install bay full of odd shaped pockets they pull from cars. That's how I filled a similar chopsake on my '77 FJ-40.
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I wonder what the nut looks like.
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tadslc
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Now I'm having to defend someone else s floor? 
If you re-read my original post I mentioned I hijacked the picture from a fellow Samba member, consvws. Found it in the classifieds
Does remind me of my grandmothers kitchen floor though, you're right about that.
But in their defense, it looks well taken care of!
And SBD, we're on the same page. I need something to fill that hole!
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swhitcomb
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Buy a cheap trash can like this one:
Cut a square out of it, and bend it to fit the hole.
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Danpa
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Seriously, I think I would try to fab up a cup holder setup there. Maybe you could use some of the screen that 'switcomb" suggested, have it attached to the outside of a holder that would swing out like a door. Have a small magnet attached to the inside of the dash pad that would hold it closed when not in use and also hold it open when you're using it.
Kind of make it like a small box with a hole in the middle for the cup.
Just a thought....
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ROCKOROD71
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Take measurements, fab up a little cardboard template and visit the local junkyard. I bet you could find some kind of ashtray, cupholder, tissue box....SOMETHING to go there. Or make your own little fill plate and mount some gauges, a clock, some knobs, cig lighter, switches, levers...pretend you're James Bond!
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SBD
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| ..switches, levers...pretend you're James Bond! |
 Oil Slick! Flame Throwers! Machine Guns! :snipersmile: :2gunfire:
Why pretend?
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Reminds me of the insurance ad about the pig and his glove box and can't decide what to put in it
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Certified Mechanic by the State of Michigan in 1977
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I've restored a large number too, but I don't toot my horn quite as loud.
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Volks Wagen
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| Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2015 12:48 pm Post subject: Re: '73-74 Dash Question -WHY? |
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I'm trying to find a small bin or ??? to fill up the hole
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What about using one of these?
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1973 1303 with AB-motor - sporadic
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