New questions - non radio 64 ( and some radio I think)

[Larry M.]

I have a non-radio car (64) which had a radio installed (very correctly) and then taken out, dash recovered, etc.

1. The speaker grille (no speaker anymore) has what looks like a peice of plastic sheet underneath the grille. Seems like a good idea to block light from the clock light, etc., but I don't find it in the AIM. Should this sheet be there or should I let the light shine through (and the dirt filter down)?

2. Hardware for the speaker grille attachment. Corvette central shows a 6 peice set, 4 hex nuts with attached star washers and two speed nuts. Paragon doesn't show a separate hardware kit, but for their replacement grille they show 2 nuts/star washers and two speed nuts. I only see places for 4 fasterners and, at this time have 4 flat washers with 4 hex nut star combos. Any experience? What is correct?

3. Since it "had" a radio installed there is a radio support bracket on the lower right console riser, riveted in place just like the AIM shows. Should this be there on a non radio car or was it only installed at assembly if a radio was ordered? If it shouldn't be there then the folks (Delco) who put the radio in really did a good job of doing it correctly.

[John H.]

Re: New questions - non radio 64 ( and some radio I think)

I have a non-radio car (64) which had a radio installed (very correctly) and then taken out, dash recovered, etc.

1. The speaker grille (no speaker anymore) has what looks like a peice of plastic sheet underneath the grille. Seems like a good idea to block light from the clock light, etc., but I don't find it in the AIM. Should this sheet be there or should I let the light shine through (and the dirt filter down)?

2. Hardware for the speaker grille attachment. Corvette central shows a 6 peice set, 4 hex nuts with attached star washers and two speed nuts. Paragon doesn't show a separate hardware kit, but for their replacement grille they show 2 nuts/star washers and two speed nuts. I only see places for 4 fasterners and, at this time have 4 flat washers with 4 hex nut star combos. Any experience? What is correct?

3. Since it "had" a radio installed there is a radio support bracket on the lower right console riser, riveted in place just like the AIM shows. Should this be there on a non radio car or was it only installed at assembly if a radio was ordered? If it shouldn't be there then the folks (Delco) who put the radio in really did a good job of doing it correctly.

Larry -

I don't find any block-off shield for the speaker grille area either. The radio support bracket went on every car - it's shown in UPC 1-Bolt/Weld, sheet A9.00, item #25.

[Larry M.]

Re: New questions - non radio 64 ( and some radio I think)

With regard to my point #1 in my original post - plastic sheet under speaker grille on non-radio car. I dug into it and here is what I found. Since my car had a radio installed after delivery and then removed the dash had to be recovered after filling the radio holes...makes sense right? So the plastic sheet I'm seeing is actually the vinyl dash covering which is molded over the entire dash. So this made me wonder...was the dash covering cut out at assembly and only for radio cars? The AIM, under optional radio, doesn't say to cut out the vinyl cover so probably not....but for guys with non radio cars maybe they could look and see what they have. I'm not really looking for a response.....I'm going to leave mine regardless.

[Mike E.]

Re: New questions - non radio 64 ( and some radio I think)

Larry...Thanks a million for the anti-static collectors. I was looking at the '65 AIM and did find the collectors on it. Not sure if your car is a coupe or roadster but it shows several other capacitor including one on the power-vent.




Mike