Since I'm sure we all would love nice heater original controls... here's a pic from a 20K original mile car that sold at Mecum (a four door Bonneville).
I had a reproduction laser cut for my car, so it's clean but not perfect if you know what they're supposed to look like. Anyone got anything cleaner than this one?
How can you not love a mint looking '69 heater control? It doesn't have AC, but I scored this NOS piece off Ebay last year. I guess no one was looking, because I was the only bidder. It cost me a whopping $20 + $5.00 shipping!
In all seriousness, it would have saved me a ton and been more correct - I had one fabricated by laser cutting, and it's darn close (would fool anyone who didn't own one), but not perfect.
I was expecting to pay around $200...and I thought that would have been a deal! You just don't find them. A small, but not an easy or cheap part to reproduce! Of course this showed up a year after I had the dash in! I plan on installing it this winter.
Is the silver paint/sharpie a touchup you did, or the original owner, or from the factory? I've never seen a raw one to know how they painted the silver trim.
The heater controls on the 69 Laurentian I had were mint. I do know a lot of (then) NOS parts were put on the car in 1977 prior to it going into a 30 year hibernation. The dash trim that surrounds the heater control was a NOS piece I found cheap on eBay. You may be able to notice I had it just sitting in place in this photo.
The heater controls on the 69 Laurentian I had were mint. I do know a lot of (then) NOS parts were put on the car in 1977 prior to it going into a 30 year hibernation. The dash trim that surrounds the heater control was a NOS piece I found cheap on eBay. You may be able to notice I had it just sitting in place in this photo.
What a great looking cluster!
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
I was expecting to pay around $200...and I thought that would have been a deal! You just don't find them. A small, but not an easy or cheap part to reproduce! Of course this showed up a year after I had the dash in! I plan on installing it this winter.
I was going to say: If you're good (and I know you are) you can change it without removing the entire surround.
But then remembered the screw by the clock that holds a small bracket to hold the top of the heater control in place. It'd be pretty tough to change it without taking the entire surround out.
There's a 70 Strato-Chief here in Calgary, and while the car is toast, it has a beautiful instrument cluster surround, and an almost perfect heater control - the nicest one I've seen.
Is the silver paint/sharpie a touchup you did, or the original owner, or from the factory? I've never seen a raw one to know how they painted the silver trim.
That is nothing that I did and was the way it came. I can't verify if it came that way from the factory or if the previous owner did it????
Nice ashtray! Both my parents smoked like chimneys, so I had to restore mine..
Here's a picture of my reproduction I had made. Not too far off. The labels (the words like WARM) are laser-cut so they even light up, but clear - I should have included a light green film backing behind it, and might still do so.
-- Edited by davepl on Tuesday 22nd of November 2016 04:20:12 PM
Whoops! That's why the Tone makes it go front to back I guess, huh.
Does anyone know which speaker SHOULD be connected to the main amp and which to the external? Right now I have the main radio headunit running the front speaker and the separate stereo box running the rear speaker, I think. No reverb in mine.
Whoops! That's why the Tone makes it go front to back I guess, huh.
Does anyone know which speaker SHOULD be connected to the main amp and which to the external? Right now I have the main radio headunit running the front speaker and the separate stereo box running the rear speaker, I think. No reverb in mine.
You've got it correct. Main radio unit runs front speaker (light green wire), separate stereo box runs rear speaker (dark blue wire). Being a stereo radio, you can actually get a 'balance' bezel instead of 'speaker'. They're a bit tough to find, but they're out there.
If you had Balance, would it still fade front to rear? I mean the stereo was always split front/rear and never side to side, even if you had dual rear seat speakers in a convertible?
So they just made a different bezel for stereo, even though it still went front/rear (but was a actual stereo split, not just fader)?
If you had Balance, would it still fade front to rear? I mean the stereo was always split front/rear and never side to side, even if you had dual rear seat speakers in a convertible?
So they just made a different bezel for stereo, even though it still went front/rear (but was a actual stereo split, not just fader)?
In my 1970 Accessories catalog, the AM/FM Stereo radio has a 'balance' bezel on the right shaft ( I've added them to my 2+2 hdtp, but not sure about my 2+2 convertible. They both have AM/FM stereo radios). It basically does the same thing as the 'speaker' bezel. Myself, I prefer a good chunk of the sound to come from the front. I get a headache when there's too much sound from the rear speakers.
On that subject, the photo of the convertible rear speaker shows the long ashtray shown in your other thread.
I suspect the Canadian pontiacs may have used chevy speaker systems. In the US a stereo (stereo radio and/or 8 track) in a big Pontiac netted you two rear speakers along with one front one. The right radio bezel was labeled balance instead of speaker or select and balanced the signal front to rear. Full size chevy stereos were different in that you got 4 speakers and you could adjust front to rear and left to righ. Not sure which system Canadian ponchos would use.
Do convertibles ever get a speaker on both sides? I seem to recall that my 2+2 had both, but it's been a number of years...
I have not seen a 69 or 70 convertible with rear speakers on both sides. I've only seen the rear speaker in the passenger side arm rest. (well that's not entirely true - I grabbed the green rear speaker & grille from the white 70 454 2+2 rag at Gibbons AB and my buddy put it on the drivers side of his green 70 350 2+2)
