This quote below, from another recent topic, REALLY might be a eureka moment for me....



I have a pair of abandoned/taped off wires that I found under my carpet laying right on the hump where the front a console would likely be located. My car is completely a non-original, non-numbers matching, modified machine...it has been restored at least twice, originally born as a 350 convertible, and now essentially converted to a 400 clone. My only clue as to what it used to be is my PHS documentation.

According to my PHS documentation, my 350 Convertible car was originally equipped with an electric CLOCK, but NOT a console. This has always baffled me because I have no idea where my clock would have been when the car was built, there is no indication that it would fit somewhere on my dash, and I have no idea if my dash is original or not. I never even considered that a clock might have just been perched on the floor/driveshaft hump!

Does anyone have a photo of what this might have looked like? Or does anyone have a current hump-mounted clock as described above, to confirm this is indeed how my car may have been equipped at one time? I would love to see this setup on someone's car. Are the any known sources for a replacement non-console clock?

Or is this all just urban legend?

Just curious...my car will NEVER be original, but this little option intrigues me...where WAS my clock? As do the mystery wires I have laying on my driveshaft hump.

Thanks!

any screw holes under that carpet? only tip I could give

Take a look at the Service Manual Section 15, Fig. 15-12 Clock Installation Firebird.

Yellowbird's site if you don't have one: http://www.thefirstgensite.com/library/68sm/acc/acc.html

Thanks Jim...I hadn't seen that in my service manual before. Also explains the mystery orange and grey plugs in the front of my fuse box that I hadn't followed thru the car yet...

Indeed this is the location of my mystery wire, and yes Bjorn I do have two holes in the floorboard here that have been filled with seam sealer.

Very interesting! Just a round clock housing bolted to the floor...

I would love to find one of these clocks/housing/bracket, etc. Or even just see a live photo of anyone who actually has this accessory installed on their Bird like this, bolted straight to the floor.

I have never seen one, or even a photo of one. I wonder how common this accessory choice was for non-console cars? And how many survivors are actually out there.

Of course now I hop on Ebay and find like 5 of them for sale...apparently not all that rare, or cheap.

Here's a relatively complete setup that is likely correct for these cars. One of the clocks in this auction appears to have the correct non-console floor bracket:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1967-68-CAMARO-F...35a&vxp=mtr

I learn something new every day....

I have a 67 firebird. The clock is located on the concule between the seats very near the dash. It dosent work and Ive been told when they were new the only lasted about a year. Bill

get it rebuilt....get a quartz guts. doesnt matter if they were on the console (early) or in the dash (69)...many didnt last long

http://www.clockwks.com/The_Clock_Worx.html

2nd Bjorn's recommendation on the quartz conversion. Had mine done last year by ClockWorks. Was around $150. Turn around was a week or so.

I was lucky enough to find a new one in the box three years ago. Still going strong, click click.

If it does go tho I will put the quartz movement in.

I've rebuilt several of those clocks. Pretty easy to do when you understand how they work. Most of the time, the spring needs retensioned and the clock lubed.