Here was my idea:
I'd build a plastic adapter plate that had posts to go into the old radio mount on the backside, and on the front side had the mounts/wire connector for current radio face plates.
Then build effectively a faceplate adaptor for the radio to replace what came with the radio.
Wire the two together and you have effectively a remote faceplate mount.
With this we could mount a new style radio anywhere, then use the adapted to run wiring up to the old style mount point. The face plate that came with the radio would go there. Viola .. remote radio, without cutting up the dash.
Seems once I made the first one of these I could make them for lesser cars (Camaro's etc.) pretty cheap.
I don't know where to go to get something like this fabricated though, so I thought I'd ask here.
If its only for my own radio I can do something much cheaper, but I would feel really good if I could solve the problem once and for all for all classic car owners.
I'd build a plastic adapter plate that had posts to go into the old radio mount on the backside, and on the front side had the mounts/wire connector for current radio face plates.
Then build effectively a faceplate adaptor for the radio to replace what came with the radio.
Wire the two together and you have effectively a remote faceplate mount.
With this we could mount a new style radio anywhere, then use the adapted to run wiring up to the old style mount point. The face plate that came with the radio would go there. Viola .. remote radio, without cutting up the dash.
Seems once I made the first one of these I could make them for lesser cars (Camaro's etc.) pretty cheap.
I don't know where to go to get something like this fabricated though, so I thought I'd ask here.
If its only for my own radio I can do something much cheaper, but I would feel really good if I could solve the problem once and for all for all classic car owners.