I was going through some of the pix from the old restoration of my car and found an interesting one of the dash. I believe it to be the original dash as it was in the car prior to restoration. It is a lousy picture as it is a scanned 2X2 original polaroid photo. In the center of the dash above the heater controls it looks like it says SS396. I can not find any photos or information that an original dash had the SS396 anywhere above the controls, only on the crome strip above the glove box. Any thoughts on why it is there or if any of the originals were like that? I'll attach the old photo and one of the current dash.
Chris R said
Dec 23, 2011
Im pretty sure someone just added that for decoration. It looks like its a 69SS door panel enbelem that they put there.
Derek69SS said
Dec 23, 2011
Chris is right, it's a door panel emblem. What you have now is correct.
I just noticed you have a factory tach too... very cool, didn't realize your car had one.
Chris R said
Dec 23, 2011
Derek69SS wrote:
Chris is right, it's a door panel emblem. What you have now is correct.
I just noticed you have a factory tach too... very cool, didn't realize your car had one.
Did you ever sell the one you had by the way?
Derek69SS said
Dec 24, 2011
nope, still have it... I kind of expected it not to sell, I put a high price on it knowing that I don't mind keeping it for the SS car if nobody wants it bad enough to pay that much.
Jon H said
Dec 24, 2011
Okay , that sounds reasonable. Now on the dash plaque insert above the gove box, did the non SS cars say Chevelle or Malibu or 300 Deluxe or was it just left blank?
-- Edited by Jon H on Saturday 24th of December 2011 10:32:43 AM
Chris R said
Dec 24, 2011
The Malibu models just said Malibu on them instead of SS396. Im not sure what the 300's had or even if they had one at all.
I was going through some of the pix from the old restoration of my car and found an interesting one of the dash. I believe it to be the original dash as it was in the car prior to restoration. It is a lousy picture as it is a scanned 2X2 original polaroid photo. In the center of the dash above the heater controls it looks like it says SS396. I can not find any photos or information that an original dash had the SS396 anywhere above the controls, only on the crome strip above the glove box. Any thoughts on why it is there or if any of the originals were like that? I'll attach the old photo and one of the current dash.
Im pretty sure someone just added that for decoration. It looks like its a 69SS door panel enbelem that they put there.
Chris is right, it's a door panel emblem. What you have now is correct.
I just noticed you have a factory tach too... very cool, didn't realize your car had one.
Did you ever sell the one you had by the way?
Okay , that sounds reasonable. Now on the dash plaque insert above the gove box, did the non SS cars say Chevelle or Malibu or 300 Deluxe or was it just left blank?
-- Edited by Jon H on Saturday 24th of December 2011 10:32:43 AM
The Malibu models just said Malibu on them instead of SS396. Im not sure what the 300's had or even if they had one at all.