Those cars were all about style, the category GM had a name for it back then I think I recall the 69 to 72 GPs were called a personal luxury car. Another rule that Pontiac had ( I think all of GM above Chevrolet) was that if a customer sat in either the front or rear seats no fasteners were allowed to be visible. They wanted the interiors to be all about the presentation. One exception to that rule I have noticed was on the '64 to 67 A body cars if you look to the side there is one chrome plated phillips screw visible in the top painted section of the inner door. (That screw holds the vent window division post.)
So the dash and a lot of the door panels have hidden fasteners. In the case of the dash pad they had to attach everything from the backside so that is why the cars are hard to work on. They got into adapting their interior designs into more "front loading" dash parts; gauges, heater controls etc. starting with the 2nd Gen Firebirds and Camaros.
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Peter Serio
Owner, Precision Pontiac
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