InteriorDiscussion about interior modifications like dashboard swaps, seat replacements, or general interior repair.
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I'm probably the only one, but for some reason I think the later, non-digital dashboards for the 3rdGen F-bodys are awesome. While I really like the "four-hole", faux-carbon Firebird dash, the 1990-92 Camaro dash with the simple guages and yellow-lettering is IMO excellent as well.
I've owned nearly 40 vehicles and still think these old 3rdGens are sweet...
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I'm probably the only one, but for some reason I think the later, non-digital dashboards for the 3rdGen F-bodys are awesome. While I really like the "four-hole", faux-carbon Firebird dash, the 1990-92 Camaro dash with the simple guages and yellow-lettering is IMO excellent as well.
I've owned nearly 40 vehicles and still think these old 3rdGens are sweet...
Hell yeah. I love em. The flat, long lines. No glove box. I don't know, it's just sick!
I wish I did have a glove box, instead of that stupid map pocket. But other than that, I like my 4-hole gauges. Makes me think of fighter jet gauges in my Firebird...
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I always loved the 85-89 camaro dash. To me its all business. Just an instrument panel filled with gauges and thats it. Race car like, long Dash, gauges and no glovebox.... just in your face.
I'd like to buy a 1991-92 Z28 mainly for the dash and rocker panels. Yes, I'm strange...
That is why I bought mine...and for the Blisters and Hi -Rise too....classic stuff that no other car can duplicate...
__________________ 69 Camaro SS Indy Pace Car convert
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i really like the look of the 3rd gen dash. its clean and looks different than any other car out there. the glovebox delete is fine with me as i never use the things anyway. the wife bitches about it all the time but its not her car. keeps her from junking up my car with women crap too. that is prolly why she gets bent out of shape about it when we take the firebird out.
i really like the look of the 3rd gen dash. its clean and looks different than any other car out there. the glovebox delete is fine with me as i never use the things anyway. the wife bitches about it all the time but its not her car. keeps her from junking up my car with women crap too. that is prolly why she gets bent out of shape about it when we take the firebird out.
HELL YEA the 3rd gen dash is one of the best the only other camaro dash that i like the most is the 69 ss with the gauges tight behind the shifter but yea my fiance complains that their is no glove box either and in my vette she complains that their is a big dash pad were the glove box should be
i would too, i think the 4th gen dash is hiddeous, looks like GM ran out of ideas, so they slammed the interior from a 1996 cavalier in it imho
I had a 650ish rwhp 2000 Z28 (see pic below) and loved everything about the car except for the interior. I honestly think GM went backwards from the late 3rdGens interior. The LT1 F-bodys were IMO awful. The LS1s got slightly better, but were still not quite as visually-pleasing as the 1990-92 F-bodys.
I had a 4th gen camaro myself it was a 1997 so it had 4 non composite headlights I really did not like the 1998 and up camaros I thought the front end looked like a chrylser LHS I believe. Anyway I thought that dash fit very well with that car and the only reason I say that is well it did look chintzy, (I hate to say this because I loved the car) it matched the rest of the car very well I mean there wasn't hardly any metal body parts on these cars as the front end, front fenders doors, rear bumper and even the roof were all plastic or something other than metal (the only metal body parts on this car was the hood rear quarters and the rear spoiler) even the horn sounded like something from a honda or toyota.
bottom line in my opinion leave the 4th gen dashes where they belong, in the 4th gens. I don't think the 3rd gen dashes look bad either they flow with the car very well.
On a side note I have always wondered with the 4th gen swaps I remember the dash on my '97 being about a mile and a half deep (due to the incredibly steep rake of the windshield). so when they swap these dashes in do they cut part of this off or does the dash sit closer to the driver than 3rd gen dashes.
