Did you get the dual speaker front kit? I love it. Instead of the one crappy speaker, you get two nice small high quality speakers that you can wire for true stereo. Mine came with the bracket that bolted right up like the stock speaker did.
The 68 panels didn’t seem to fit very well but I did find screw holes that seem to be for a 68 style panel, I just made up my arm rests, got some foam from Joanns. Will try to install soon.
Finally getting around to putting some tunes in my wife's 68 (non-AC). I've got all the parts on the way (head unit, amp, 6X9s in enclosures going behind the seats on the floor, amp kit, wires, and a super cool dual dash speaker replacement. Here's the million-dollar question for you cats that have done this/got the T-shirt. What are the steps to access/replace the dash speaker? Of course, I'll have the head unit and ash tray out to start... Will that be enough opening/access to get to the old dash speaker? Thank you. r/RJ
Sorry, I misunderstood. Still, don't the '68 side covers go right on over the painted top? Re-pops should work. I also had to order some '68 convertible arm rests from Firebird central. I needed the metal forms. I have '68 hardtop arm rests and thought I could modify them to work. After getting the re-pops I now know I was wrong.
only Camaro's with deluxe interior will have the arm rests.
Both my 1968 Firebirds had rear arm rests. One was deluxe and the other is base. Both had the ash tray inserted in the arm rest. I don't recall ever seeing one without arm rests.
If you notice I said only Camaros with deluxe interior, I didn't say Firebirds, I know Firebirds have the arm rests, I made that coment because most places try sell Camaro stuff as Firebird stuff
Been going thru this my self, but with a 69 convertible, which is the only thing that will fit mine. Beside the scammers that answer you part searches, the only place I found that had them was Firebird Central. They weren't cheap and when I got them it was just the fabric and cardboard. Called and explained they were incomplete. Not attached to the metal piece on top and did not have the window felt. Turns out they source that out and I was sent the wrong thing. I returned the parts and they put a rush order to have the others made. Got them last week and they look good. On a 69 convertible it is actually three parts that make up the interior side pieces.
only Camaro's with deluxe interior will have the arm rests.
Both my 1968 Firebirds had rear arm rests. One was deluxe and the other is base. Both had the ash tray inserted in the arm rest. I don't recall ever seeing one without arm rests.
if you notice, the door panel ends at the back of the upper seat, the rest of the metal is exposed so it gets painted interior color, and there are metal corner pieces that go in the corners where it wraps around to the bottom of the window
the metal there is right. the door panels fit over it. here is a pic of my 69, which should be close to your 68. sorry for the small pic, and for not showing the whole area, but you can get the idea. the other pic is what it looks like done. the door panels dont cover the whole area, the arm rests cover the lower part, and there is a metal filler piece for the upper seat. don't get confused looking at Camaro's as only Camaro's with deluxe interior will have the arm rests.
Maybe they crunched the numbers looking for fat males that lean on steering wheels to get out? Did Pontiac have a 'fat guy' box to be checked on the order form at the dealership?
All I know is that I rarely if ever see an intact deluxe wheel like Jim's. I have a pretty good black one stashed away but it is not perfect. That is why I fixed up a Formula wheel with the wings down Firebird.
Maybe I am not understanding. Don't the '68 rear panels just cover the top painted part? And the '67 panels leave that bare? I am pretty sure the '67 panels were used by someone because they were available and worked. I would think just get some re-pop '68's and carry on. Or am I totally backwards on this? The pic is my '68 and my '68 panels covered the painted top. I think it's just a minor model year change. I am fitting a roll bar so ignore the mess.
Dylan, I'm curious what you decided to do with your 68 convertible? Did you end up going with a Dynacorn body?
I'm in a similar position, although mine is a 350 convertible. I've replaced both quarters and tail pan. But now I want to replace the trunk pan and from what I've read online the tail pan needs to be removed to get the new trunk pan in (which i SHOULD have done at the same time but didn't). In addition, the floor pan needs some work as well. Whomever had this car before me did some questionable patch work so might be better to just replace the whole floor pan. Also the top inner cowl and upper dash have rot. I have most of the parts (purchased from Classic Industries) so it's mainly the labor I'm concerned with. I have a young child so spare time is valuable and hard to come by these days so I'm debating to farm out the work, or just bite the bullet and buy a completely new body from Dynacorn or similar and then transfer the VIN.
I'll add one more twist to the '68 steering wheel recall. The recall mentions it applies to both '68 Firebirds and '68 Tempests yet only says "Potential Number of Units Affected 12,164. Note that the Definitive Firebird & Trans Am Guide 1967-1969 shows 47,532 Deluxe steering wheels were equipped on '68 Birds.
Note that there were only three steering wheels from the factory, standard, deluxe and sport. With 47,532 deluxe, 3,655 custom sport, I would assume there were about 56,000 standard steering wheels.
Did they estimate only some of the wheels would break?
