Has anyone ever noticed that on the front of the pad where the VIN is there is sometimes a notch???? Sometimes its on the passanger side???? I have 3 pads all with the notch on the pass side but I have seen them on the dr side...What gives????

 

Whatch you talkin bout Willis? I have never seen this. Is this a bird only deal? Now I want to Know!

 

Took a look at the dash out of my old '82 and it has the notch.

 

Maybe you guys have left over export dashes that were used up on domestic cars. I.E. europe and austrailia! I am probably wrong.

 

82FirebirdTA: You wanna sell that dash pad in the picture?

 

Sorry, gotta keep it as a spare I just know if I sold it the next day one or both of my '83's will have cracked dashes. I'll contact you if I run into another good one though.

 

nope, ALL thirdgens without exception left the factory left hand drive, with the vin number in the bottom drivers side corner of the windshield..

thirdgens were never officialy imported to UK or Aus - Aus cars need to be converted to right hand drive by law, in the UK we leave them left hand drive..

here's me following FocusGhia through North London, in case you wonderd what its like on the other side of the road!

 

This one sure looks like a good conversion to right hand drive.

 

does look good, car is probably in Australia..

the biggest problem with the right hand drive conversion is the hump for the cat - very difficult to overcome!

 

The notch has nothing to do with the vin number, and all thirdgens have the notch on the passengers side. Don't ask me what its for, I have no idea.

Someone might want to verify whether the Camaro dashpad has the same notch, I can't remember one way or the other.

 

Also, the notch isn't visible when the dash is installed the car, the lower part of the windshield is blacked out concealing the notch.

 

That would confuse the hell out of me. I guess you have have to learn how to drive all over again.

 

hahahaha, i have one left hand drive auto (Camaro) and one right hand drive stick (Escort)

i'm fine with it, but it confuses the hell out of me poor ol mom, she can never remember what side to get into the car!!

this is the view from the daily driver



and the view from the weekend toy..