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Overhead Console

For fabrication of the Overhead Console, click here.

When I was a sophomore or junior in high school, Panasonic introduced the Cockpit stereo and I wanted one to put into my ’76 Mustang II.  The price, priorities (saving for college), and my limited income as a student , however, kept me from buying one.  When I bought a brand new ’79 Berlinetta just prior to my freshman year of college, the thought of an overhead stereo returned.  That time I balked at drilling into the headliner/roof structure.  I instead installed a graphic equalizer and CB radio where the AC vent would have been.

Panasonic Cockpit Stereo, Circa 1978

Here is my solution.  The console is made from a 2004 S10 overhead console (I had an S10 at the time, and that's what gave me the idea).  The removable stereo face plate (KEH-7600MP) is wired to the stereo body in the passenger side wheel well.  Just above the face plate is an opening to access the radar detector, and what had been the notebook storage is used for the computer control and status LEDs.

I still must fabricate the trim which goes along the windshield frame.

Questions, broken links, comments, concerns?

e-mail me, Greg Kimnach (non-hyphenated American)

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