For those of you dash-hackers-

[greasemonkey]

I have decided to cut the dash. I had the Custom Autosound cassette player but it didn't work well at all, cassette controls were weird and there was lots of static. Anyway, when I got my floor sandblasted, the radio died. I was researching the Kenwood from Chevy Duty, GMC Pauls etc with CD controller, but I would fork out $300 for the radio and then another $300 for the CD player when I can spend a few hours cutting the dash and installing a high-quality Pioneer or JVC with the CD player built in for $200-$300. My question- what setup do you hackers use, brand etc. Pics would be greatly appreciated. At my local truck shop, they have flip face JVC and Pioneer both.
P.S. I know there are a lot of threads on this subject, I did a search on it, but all the pictures were expired.
Thanks, John