Dashy 5 Piece
Jessia Adachi
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the 3 piece dashes with chrome trim are specific to the trim. on the two chrome dashes that i have, the bottom piece was actually made by cutting the lower section off, essentially creating an almost flat cover piece. the chrome trim was a combination of some chrome plated plastic pieces around both heater levers and a chrome ashtray in-line with the trim and a chrome piece across the glove box which was also specific to this dash, as far as i can tell. these dashes were on very early US market cars only and on Euro market cars until much later. All ti's had them.
So if my car is euro and fab. nov 1970 there is a possibility I had that trim? Thing is the previous owner lost the original dashboard and replaced it with a 1 piece that's almost crack free but I wanted to go back to the original.
If it is a European delivered car from early '70 it could easily have had the chrome dash. I don't think I have seen any US cars that had it after Dec '67. Every one I have seen here in the US, chrome dash=1967 and given they did not bring the 2002 in until 1968 I don't think I have ever seen a US 2002 with a chrome dash. A friend here in Seattle has one of the first 2002s brought into the US and used in for the press introductions and it is a non chrome dash.
US '66-67 production all had chrome lower three piece dashes. That includes Sept-Dec '67 production '68 model year cars. '68 model year US cars got the hazard switch located to the left side of the instrument cluster. Most '67 cars had the hazard switch in one of the driver side under dash panels or in a switch pod on the under side of the steering column.
The under dash panels for the chrome dashes were different than those of later padded dashes. They were vinyl covered and padded shaped cardboard rather than black colored flat cardboard of the padded dash cars.
The US cars got the padded lower dashes for Jan '68 and later production. US padded lower three piece dashes until the model '71 mid '71 changeover at which they became two piece padded. At this time US hazard switches moved to the red button in the center console to the left of the ash tray. Late '71 to early '72 got seatbelt warning pods atop the two piece dashes. US square light cars all had one piece dashes.
All Euro '02s had chrome lower three piece dashes until the model '71 changeover. Euro hazard switches for chrome lower dashes were placed like those in the US '67 dashes. They were then two piece until model '73 (square light) when the dashes became one piece. No Euro '02s had seatbelt/emissions warning pods atop their dashes...
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