[PT'S 70 CST]

I can tell you guys that I have never seen this before but have seen some odd things on the early consoles. The oddest thing that I ever saw was a console that I restored for 70CST (Dewayne). His had all of the screw holes in the weirdest places and they came from the factory that way. What you probably have is an early run console that GM was trying to figure out the best way to produce these and found out later that adding the screws would allow them to take these apart. Just like in late 72 and early 73 they went to the bigger reinforced hinge to keep the back corners from breaking.


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