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Re: cutting the dash

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Originally Posted by Chrome8

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?

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...

Re: cutting the dash

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Originally Posted by matthufham

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

anyone know where a fellow could get a radio delete?

Re: cutting the dash

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

Re: cutting the dash

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