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TAC Tech => Interior => Topic started by: Wallington on February 03, 2023, 07:03:13 AM

Title: Steel plate inside dash top
Post by: Wallington on February 03, 2023, 07:03:13 AM: Today's edition of weird trivia...there's a curved steel plate under all the dash foam. This came from a '73.

If you are trying to get your bearings this the section above the glovebox, grab handle holes, vent to right.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52665965537_2edf52c7a3_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oeUQGz)Firebird dash grab handle cut steel plate under foam (1) (https://flic.kr/p/2oeUQGz) by Ben (https://www.flickr.com/photos/196419001@N03/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52666964773_80857e22d8_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oeZXJM)Firebird dash grab handle cut steel plate under foam (2) (https://flic.kr/p/2oeZXJM) by Ben (https://www.flickr.com/photos/196419001@N03/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52666895400_08a8272838_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oeZB7G)Firebird dash grab handle cut steel plate under foam (3) (https://flic.kr/p/2oeZB7G) by Ben (https://www.flickr.com/photos/196419001@N03/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52666964733_6820256478_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oeZXJ6)Firebird dash grab handle cut steel plate under foam (5) (https://flic.kr/p/2oeZXJ6) by Ben (https://www.flickr.com/photos/196419001@N03/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Steel plate inside dash top
Post by: roadking77 on February 03, 2023, 11:47:39 AM: Interesting, what is that part exactly? Looks like some kind of a foam insert? All of the dashes I have ever seen were hard plastic on the backside. Is this part attached to that?
Title: Re: Steel plate inside dash top
Post by: Wallington on February 03, 2023, 05:06:14 PM: Not foam, just the regular black plastic dash but cut up. The surface texture you are looking at is probably the spray contact glue and residue from the foam I peeled off and then gerni'd bare. After peeling the dash vinyl off, it was all foam, only found the plate after tearing it away.

This is a 1973 casting dash #488668 but photos I have of other NOS dashes show the rivets on the inside.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52667773800_b6853dd187_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2of57ew)Firebird dash grab handle cut steel plate under foam (18) (https://flic.kr/p/2of57ew) by Ben (https://www.flickr.com/photos/196419001@N03/), on Flickr

I'll add pic anyway. Here's a #10018005 78-81 NOS dash clearly showing the rivets.

(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52666846037_1d35559d3e_h.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2oeZmrB)NOS GM 10018005 78-81 Firebird dash pad (8) (https://flic.kr/p/2oeZmrB) by Ben (https://www.flickr.com/photos/196419001@N03/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Steel plate inside dash top
Post by: Gene-73 on February 03, 2023, 05:50:52 PM: Can confirm. I just took a magnet to my dash and sure enough, there's metal under there in that corner.
Title: Re: Steel plate inside dash top
Post by: Wallington on February 03, 2023, 05:59:37 PM: Aahhh it's for adding fridge magnets to your dash to hold your shopping list. That's one more mystery solved!
Title: Re: Steel plate inside dash top
Post by: roadking77 on February 05, 2023, 10:16:51 AM: Thanks, those last couple of pics clear things right up. Good place to stick car show magnets, LOL.