Newbie question 1: Dashboard Options

[amfab]

Hi I am new to this forum. Thanks in advance for the help.

Car is a 1974 2.0.
I am replacing the radio and have a roll of basket weave vinyl to do the rest of the dash as well.

My Question is: was the radio plate always separate in terms of vinyl basket weave or did the vinyl ever come as one contiguous piece from the drivers side all the way to the seam at the glove box with no seam for the radio plate, or were the radio plates always separate?

-Andrew

[r_towle]

Seperate, but I suspect if you tack weld in the plate, it will work.

[amfab]

Oh, I meant the vinyl, not the metal. I was thinking of just taking the vinyl right across the seam without cutting it. If none never came like that Im fine with the seam. Probably easier to serve or replace the radio

[anderssj]

Oh, I meant the vinyl, not the metal. I was thinking of just taking the vinyl right across the seam without cutting it. If none never came like that Im fine with the seam. Probably easier to serve or replace the radio

As far as I know, they all had black vinyl that ended at the left edge of the plastic radio face plate (also a black basket-weave look). The right side of that plastic radio face plate was bordered by the left edge of the glove box door as shown a friend's car:



When I re-did my dash I used a replacement metal radio mounting plate (from RennenMetal I think), then covered the entire dash face with what looks like a single piece of tan basket-weave across the dash from the driver's side vent to the left edge of the glove box:



The overlap under the heater/fan control is hidden when the lower dash is in place. When everything is installed, it looks like a seamless piece of vinyl. Of course, I couldn't find a picture of that (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif)

Hope this helps!