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February 01, 2013, 08:57:51 PM

1 NOS leather wrapped steering wheel, Academy Blue, with cruise control and NOS horn center
1 NOS Academy Blue console lid
1 NOS dark blue dash pad

The three highest-wear interior items, all correct, in boxes, and ready to go. Finally got the last piece yesterday after looking for about 7 years.

The sum? About $700.
I paid less than that for the whole car. ;)

Now if I could only find that elusive NOS heater panel...

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Reply #1 – February 01, 2013, 10:23:30 PM

Score one for the good guys!

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Reply #2 – February 02, 2013, 12:13:23 AM

Did you get a bottle hair-conditioner with it

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Reply #3 – February 02, 2013, 07:57:17 AM

[SIZE="7"]......DING........[/SIZE]

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Reply #4 – February 02, 2013, 09:38:07 AM

Quote from: jcassity;408586

Did you get a bottle hair-conditioner with it

Don't be hatin' on my klller mullet, Scott.

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Reply #5 – February 02, 2013, 03:50:09 PM

ah dang Eric if i knew you were looking for an academy blue console lid i would have sold you the one i bought by mistake! it is nos in the box and flawless its the big padding style.
i had bought it by mistake because the pics in ebay looked very much like it was raven in color.

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Reply #6 – February 02, 2013, 10:54:26 PM

Hey, I'd take another one...PM me if you want to sell.

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Reply #7 – February 03, 2013, 12:51:41 AM

Hey E-man, you should find a minty '85...that way you'll have all three years of the best 4 eye Cats lol.

(I only say that because I don't care for the layout of the of the previous years' dashes...just my opinion, is all :))

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Reply #8 – February 03, 2013, 11:28:51 PM

Ummm....my '84 has the older dash.

It's actually a nice dash layout...very symmetrical, easy to get the dash pad off, looks very nice. But the lack of decent gauges and a limited center stack are definitely a minus.

I find it somewhat ironic that I have never owned an '83, '85 or '87. It always ended up the even-numbered years.

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Reply #9 – February 03, 2013, 11:40:42 PM

I thought...I thought....errrr yeh, I thought your '83 was the last year of the older dash. (you know...those silly Aero Fox Bird guys, all uppity with their lack of knowledge) LOL

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Reply #10 – February 04, 2013, 10:34:11 PM

How can you not love this dash? Come on now.

(It looks even better in a convertible...)

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Reply #11 – February 04, 2013, 11:11:28 PM

Quote from: EricCoolCats;408820

How can you not love this dash? Come on now.
(It looks even better in a convertible...)

I like those so much better than the 85-88 ones. You can always fix the gauge situation.

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Reply #12 – February 04, 2013, 11:40:08 PM

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How can you not love this dash? Come on now

I agree, but then my 85 (10th vin digit F) Turbo coupe has the 83-84 dash layout. I am not sure of it's build date, door tag has been missing for years.

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Reply #13 – February 04, 2013, 11:41:41 PM

Nice score. It's fun to find those NOS items in boxes isn't it? I started collecting NOS parts in boxes for fun. The goofy thing is I want to keep them in the box they came in and not install them on my Thunderbird. Now I just have to figure out how to store/display this stuff so it looks cool.

BTW Eric I like the new sig. Very 80's vibeish :D.

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Reply #14 – February 05, 2013, 01:30:24 AM

Eric is right I like these earlier years myself but the gauges can cause you to get a little sleepy on a long road trip because Those gauges they're boring as hell to look at