Hello everybody. First post here, I thought this would be a worthy contribution to the library of information contained here. Thank you all very much for a thousand answers I have found on your site. I have been restoring a firechicken for the last year and have relied on, and benefited from information I found here.
The dash carrier on the 69 is a difficult piece to fit a modern single din head unit into. It was molded at the factoy to house the original style radio. In all my research I have not found a solution, so I was forced to handle the issue "in house".
The short of the long is, I made a vacuum former out of stuff I had laying around. I used the household vac and the kitchen oven to heat and form a piece of abs into the shape I needed. I shaped a piece of pine with a chop saw, table saw, and sand paper, to create the mold at the dimensions I needed. (Minus the thickness of the plastic). The whole thing took me..over a year thinking about, researching, and trying different install kits..and one afternoon.+3 beers.
The result was exactly what I wanted and I am happy to share them here. I am attaching pics, and eagerly waiting for opinions and criticisms. Proud to be a member here, and I am looking forward to posting more as my pretty bird rises from the ashes.