cutting the dash for a deck

over on vcvc they were talking about cutting the dash to mount a deck, at the time i was trying to figure out what i was going to do and cutting my dash was not an option for me,i have cut the dash in other cars several times but just didnt want to cut this one. the shaft mount decks classic auto sells are nice and look great but my butt is broke so i had to improvise see what ya think.









i used a cheapo wal mart 6x9 speaker box i had layin around.

It looks good to me,, I dont want to cut either,, but going to try savin up for a retro one that fits the hole eventually. maybe even just find an AM ,,lol

retro sound and classic auto sound have ones that will fit our vans and they look great, but they start out at 190 bucks. all the am ones ive found have been priced pretty high.

My dash is already butched, so I'll be puttin my old Alpine in it.

a few tears ago i had a 64 chevy truck, nice old ride pretty clean with a bbc and i used a sawzall to cut the dash for my pull out clarion it looked like some one used a hatchet, ahhhh the ole drinkin days was fun.

Looks good Bowtie.I guess we all have had our experiences with dash radios and findin solutions.Mine has been cut and what looks to be peeled down with Channel-locks.So it at this point,I have to do a fix either way.

Mine was all butchered up with the hole too wide for a deck so I made an aluminum plate and polished it up to make it look cleaner. Building one in a console is a good idea then make a plate and mount some small gauges in the original stereo hole

Thought I'd keep this thread alive. I don't know what the heck the PO used to hack up the dash. My friend retired from the pawn shop business and has a brand new in the box Craig cassette player with input ports for the new stuff he gave me so maybe I'll go that route then I'll only have to weld up a few holes.

Its a shame how some of these dashes were done.But I guess the PO's had to improvise to the types of systems that were coming out at the time.And our predrilled all steel dashes didnt help matters any.

richie61 wrote:Thought I'd keep this thread alive. I don't know what the heck the PO used to hack up the dash. My friend retired from the pawn shop business and has a brand new in the box Craig cassette player with input ports for the new stuff he gave me so maybe I'll go that route then I'll only have to weld up a few holes.

WOW who was the po stevie wonder......

The PO was a unemployerd handyman in Sacramento!!!! I wonder why???