73-77 A-body TECH Includes 73GTO, LeMans, Grand Am, Can Am

          
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Old 10-14-2015, 01:07 PM
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Question dash swap 77 wagon?

Planning on thrashing on my 77GL safari wagon this winter. What year dashes will interchange? My dash is toast.

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Old 10-14-2015, 06:42 PM
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Planning on thrashing on my 77GL safari wagon this winter. What year dashes will interchange? My dash is toast.
Your GL should have the GP style Dash, so I would think 73-77 GP, 73-75 Grand Am, 75-77 Grand Lemans , and the 77 Can Am.

Of course the regular lemans style dash will fit also, 73-77 it just looks different.

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Old 10-14-2015, 11:31 PM
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x2 on what camerjeff said. All those dash's will work. Only thing is your going to pay a good price for a dash as the 73-77 dash's are now getting as expensive as the 70-71 & 72 dash's. A dash from a Grand Prix is going to be your best bet though.

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Old 10-17-2015, 05:47 PM
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ok, thanks for the info. Never see any of the 73-77 a body cars around my part of the country.

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Old 10-17-2015, 11:04 PM
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Also, be aware that the console vs. non-console dash is slightly different. If you grab a dash out of a console car it will look slightly odd down near the radio area if you don't have one in your wagon.

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Actually the dash is the same, but the plastic radio housing is different between a console dash and non-console dash. The radio housing for a console is made to fit to the console, and the non-console radio plate is rounded off on the bottom with an ashtray. Whichever situation he has, he should already have the correct radio housing to put in the new dash.

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Actually the dash is the same, but the plastic radio housing is different between a console dash and non-console dash.
I could have sworn they were one piece & different. Maybe I was just too dumb to get mine off way back when ;-) To think that I turned down a great red dash because it was a column shifted car back in the day...

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Old 10-19-2015, 02:44 AM
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Ben , bad news you passed up a good red dash, the dashs are all the same it's the dash pieces that are different. It would be way to expensive to make 2 different dashs for those cars & much cheaper to make the attaching parts for them different.

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