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if i remember, they're custom made

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Yeah, but if your "Runnin down the road, trying to loosen your load" and want to skip a song ar change the station, you have to:
A:Have a friend switch it, if theres a friend with you.
B:Pull over and switch it
C:Suffer through the pain of crappy music or commercials.
Therefore, I will cut my dashboard.

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To cut or not to cut that was an easy answer for me. I hate to see anyone with a good cab cut the dash. When I see that I think of my kids or grandkids cussing me when they attempt to restrore it much as we would cus someone who bought a 56 chevy to turn it into a dirt track car!!! We used theis route... no idea where to get on Disturbed Koncepts gave us ours. The only dash we cut was the 1ton truck bc the dash in it already looked like crap.

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no balls!!! cut the dash!!! lol. if it bothers you just put it somewhere else: glovebox, center console.... but this is coming from a guy who relocated the gas tank, lowered it, and i dont have much money for new trim and marker lights so i shaved them off. i was gonna lose the heater box too off the firewall too cause i needed another one but luckily my friend got me one.lol. later...

tom

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I've had this one for eight years.. 22 watts X 4 channels.. It works great in an uncut dash.. I purchased one of the mp3 players that plugs into the cigar lighter, and it takes care of the digital needs.

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Here's the website:

http://www.jjengineering.us/products/products.htm

The owner's name is Javier Sanchez, a really nice guy to deal with.

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Here is mine cut and primed . You dont see the gap on top once the trim ring in installed.

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If you want to cut it then cut it if you have doubts then don't cut it or weld in the filler plate..

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How does that MP3 cig lighter set-up perform? Does it sound good ?

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One word: Remote :)

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bingo

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I'm happy with it. I didn't expect much for thirty bucks. Before I was using a mini-disc player through a casette adapter. This sounds better, and is much more convenient.

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I think you guys know my opinion:lol:

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Thats a hot rodders way of "fixing up" an old truck. lol I was going to do the same thing with my lights but got some new ones for x-mas.

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I have a vision for you guys...how about a GM touch screen nav system? I want to remove the ashtray. Cut a big chunk out as wide as the indent on the factory location and weld in a filler panel smooth it all out....cut it again to the size needed for the nav. Install the radio with stuff from the junkyard and fabed. Polished trim ring all the way around the radio with allen bolts countersunk. XM and gps pucks where the stock speaker would go under the dash. Should work through the windshield. Anyone done a double din size?

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My Son and I have been discussing this one. I have seen the butchered ones just to install a cassette or an old F**D radio in there and that sucks. I think that to properly "modify" the dash to install a modern standard sized DIN unit would be acceptable, I don't like it but, many of us make modifications to improve the truck. My son does not want to modify the dash and I see his point also, but what better place to put the new unit than where it is easiest to use ??? The debate goes on......

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i just remembered jayspot.com, forgot the owner, he took a radio delete, and hinged it, hiding a new radio.

http://www.jayspot.com/images/truck/radio-1.jpg
http://www.jayspot.com/images/truck/radio-2.jpg
http://www.jayspot.com/images/truck/radio-3.jpg
http://www.jayspot.com/pages/67gmc-int.html

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i like that hinge idea but with my luck id break it.

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need to put cupholders on the inside of the delete plate.

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I guess I am in two camps. I like the nostalgic look with unseen technology, and I also like ultra-modified stuff. The first style is what I'm doing with my Burb, thus my previous post. The second is where I'm taking the '61. It's smoothed and I'm going to put an LCD in there. It has to be one extreme or the other for me. :metal: Here's the '61 dash:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y23...U/P1010006.jpg

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is that all metal? it looks super duper none the less.

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All metal and a skim coat of filler. There used to be holes next to the column too.

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I see a few comments I highly agree with, First I would cut my dash mainly because I have dealt with radios under the seat, in the glove box, laying in the middle of the floor. My opinion is as someone else stated these trucks will never be worth anything like a 68 Comaro RS or 56 thunderbird etc unless you happen to be the original owner and your name is Prince Charles. Installing an aftermarket player in the dash so that it looks clean looks every bit as good as an original but sounds 10X better. I have seen on this post guys who would not cut their dash to put the CD there but instead they welded a plate in the glove box and installed the player there. I would buy the truck with the modified dash before buying the one who just made the glove box useless so now I have to put everything under the seat or take the $hit out of the mail box. My truck is far from stock but other than seeing a rake to it, different wheels/Tires and engine noise nobody except a person knowing these trucks and is a fanatic about it being totally stock knows the difference, and the fanatic isnt going to like that late model truck seat or Grand Prix buckets in their either. I personally think that the Blazer gas tanks in the rear or these trucks look rediculas, you see this big ass bulge hanging down in the rear(kinda reminds me of my kids when they where babies and filled their diapers full of $hit), it looks far more unnatural than cutting up a dash to install a nice radio or DVD setup.

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It certainly hurts the originality, which affects the value if the truck is otherwise stock. If the truck is custom all over, no one's going to worry about a cut dash. If it's a very stock truck like a Cheyenne, then IMHO cutting the dash is a *bad plan*.

I plan to leave my stock radio in place but upgrade the speaker a bit. Long live AM radio!!! :)

Bill Lattimer
billla@warbird.org
1972 C10 LWB

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This is really cool!!!

I'm working on something similar for for my plane. I'll have an original radio panel in the bird that pulls out to reveal a modern radio stack. At a show, it all looks correct and I get the benefit of modern radios in the air.

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My truck isn't anywhere near stock but for some reason I just couldn't cut the dash. I decided to go with the custom autosound deck with a 10 disc cd changer. So far I'm glad I went this way but it isn't finished yet.

http://images.snapfish.com/3459236%3...3A7%3C68nu0mrj

http://images.snapfish.com/3459236%3...3A7%3C66nu0mrj

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I've cut the dash on both of my Chevy's. I'm not worried about resale value, these trucks won't be leaving our family. As a weird side note, when I removed the plastic trim from my 70 Coronet, the hole in the dash was a perfect fit for my din mount stereo.

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Nice work on that dash, let me know how your install goes. I'd like to see how it mouts in there.

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OK where did you get the killer looking dash and glove box door?


http://images.snapfish.com/3459236%3...3A7%3C66nu0mrj[/QUOTE]

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I got them from no limit. Heres another pic.

http://images.snapfish.com/34592%3A2...83%3B%3Anu0mrj

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do you have a link to their website?

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This is it...they advertise alot in Classic Trucks & Custom Classic Trucks Magazines...they also have alot of tech articles in them from this shop...http://www.nolimit.net/

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You bet ya! ORIGINAL is where it is at for me. By all means this is not slamming anyone, I still respect other peoples choices to do what they need to get it done or look good. I love ORIGINAL but I like it when people change it too.

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matthufman : I dig that idea of the hidden HU using the radio delete but can not figure out what he used for the hinge part of it any ideas.I would dod this mod in a HEARBEAT CHevy HEARTBEAT NO DOUBT:lol:

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that's the way i was going. i wanted that original indent to stretch on down to the a/c controls, gently slanting back out at the bottom. if the po hadn't cut the dash, i'd say leave it stock, but since it's already done, what the hell. it seems it would be just as easy to repair the hole no matter which one was done. i just can't decide whether to use a salvaged (or new) system from gm, or whether i should just build my own our of a computer. more possibilities with the computer, and probably less expensive. anyone have any idea what a unit from gm would cost, new or salvage?

on that note, i understand microsoft may be working on an automotive comp. system, called the "t-box" since so many guys have been building their own out of pcs and mac minis. that's microsoft for you, wrecking everyone's homemade fun...

the tough part is convincing the wife. she's a purist, and wants the original radio. it'll be a hard sell...

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anyone know where a fellow could get a radio delete?

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http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1967-...QQcmdZViewItem

They usually go for closer to $10

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cool.
i was also thinking about the newer model jeep sat.nav radios. i assume they are 1.5 din, as usual, but not sure. just thinking that their new design might compliment our dashes quite nicely, since they are rounded on the corners, like our radio insets. something like this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/CHRYS...25759708QQrdZ1

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I'm thinking about the radio delete plate idea. Pretty slick if yo ask me.

BTW, I mentioned cutting the dash to my dad this weekend, and all I can say is: OVERRULED