I wish you well on putting the clips on upside down then installing the dash. Yes it can be done. But you will hate yourself for listening to us. Do it correctly. It's not that bad.
I don't know where this nonsense is coming from. I'm officially an old man. I was about 69 when I re-installed my dash--from inside the car. No problem. One reason I did it is I was thinking about a custom dash built on the "different" Valiant style cluster which is easier to deal with, or maybe even accidently scored a Ralley dash/ cluster.
"Correctly?" The "correctly" way was done by the factory for ASSEMBLY LINE EXPEDIENCE. With no windscreen in the car, they just tossed it in, threw some screws in through the windshield, and zipped them down.
