1972 Duster, 340/4, black on black (the endgame)

The last step that was holding up filler work on the dash was the stereo. As I mentioned, I had no intentions of using the Barracuda thumbwheel AM radio in this since it's a daily driver and I'll need more than that. And since someone trashed the dash to make the AM radio fit, the place to start was the plastic dash panel.

I picked up a 1/8" sheet of styrene to fill the void:



Then to figure out how much damage I was going to repair:

Then I had to get the stereo. I went with a Sony that has the jack for my mp3 player and SirriusXM. With that dry fitted I determined what needed to be filled and glued the pieces in with JB Weld:



I also embedded a wire across the bottom to give some really brittle plastic some strength.

With this done I was able to make some brackets, fit the stereo and weld the brackets to the steel frame:




And with that done the filler work finished right up:



Now back to the fenders.

Ken