Re: [T3] Continuing on dashes again...

[Jim Adney <jadney@vwtype3.org>]

On 13 Dec 2002 at 16:18, Everett Barnes wrote:

> >I see that I am completely wrong about the diamond shape. I think I remember
> that on some cars the hole in the steel under the foam dash is kind of diamond
> shaped, but were the little round perforations EVER arranged in a diamond?
> >
> I think all the solid perforated dashes were isosceles trapezoids, as you
> noted.

You're being kind; I thought the shape was a diamond. Did any of the trapezoids 
have a blank path down the center?

> The metal of the dash on early cars are 2 mirror D-shapes

That's what I'm remembering

> Did this change in later years?

In 71 it changed to a single rounded rectangle. This changed the way a radio 
speaker fit in there.

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Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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