I will -double- your money!

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 got a really nice one about 4 years ago from TinMan.

I think it was $35 + shipping.

But I'm jealous gtodrive !

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. 

 

gtodrive wrote:

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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.

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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. 

Here's an NOS 1970 Automatic A/C control, with the "Burled Elm" woodgrain.  I also posted the photo in the thread of the 69 with some 70 parts.

How about ashtray porn?  It's the original ashtray by the way, not an NOS replacement.

Dave, your 'speaker' and 'tone' bezels are on the wrong shafts.

davepl wrote:

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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.

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 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.

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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)?

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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.

So...how rare is the in dash tach?