OK, Today I climbed up into my roof and dragged down these two dash pad tops. I took a lot of pictures so I'll have to post them into some successive replies. But you will see what I'm talking about.
They have been up in the roof since about 1997, when I dragged home my '65 Bonneville 4DRHP. I got quite a few "spares" with the car.
I really could not remember a lot about them so I was a bit shocked when I looked at the top without A/C. It has been very crudely recovered and its basically all coming apart. On top of that, its quite rusty and you can see they didn't even bother to fit the speaker panel into it. Plus, they seem to have made up some sort of grilles to accomodate the demister ducts. I think it would be fair to say that its just no good at all but it might still be saveable????
On the other hand, the A/C dash is all there. Sure, its got cracks and is very brittle but it is in my mind a very suitable core for recovering.
My old Bonneville is resting in a tightly locked up shed some 70 miles from my home, It does NOT have an A/C dash and I'm sure it is a much better core for recovering. However, I have NO IDEA when I could get down there to pull it out. Months probably.
So........ For the interim, can I find a volunteer who might want to send me a speaker grille for the NON A/C style dash top. If I had one of these, I think I could then give the really ratty NON A/C dash to our dash repair guys and see what they say. I'm reluctant to give it to them without the correct speaker grille. I'm sure you all understand why!!
For the dash WITH A/C, I will give it to them "as - is" and get a quote to cover it in
RED as this will eventually go into my '65 Parisienne Convertible.
But first, what I need from you guys, is some sort of confirmation that what you are looking at are indeed out of 1965 Pontiac's?
Look forward to some responses please
Ian
Hmmmm, after downloading all these pics I can see they are pretty bad quality. I was rushing to get this done before all the family sat down to dinner. It's Mothers Day here today in Australia! I'll take some more pics tomorrow and see if I can improve on them. Sorry guys