Rick is great and he's an Early Valiant and Barracuda Club member and owner. He knows that radio very well. Built a great one for my car with Bluetooth and everything and it looks bone stock. Check out the link below for prices.
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Man, if you could make a dash pad that was actually, you know, a pad, I'd be very interested in that. I bought an original dash pad for my Valiant and immediately sold it again because the fact that it's just metal with a piece of vinyl over it is pointless when it comes to offering any safety...
Jepeg Design has several first and second gen Valiant designs on his page. He's starting on 3rd gen stuff. Check out pages 2, 3, and 4.
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I used the Hellwig tubular sway bar kit on my 64. It's great and doesn't require tabs on the LCA. it has bolt on stuff. No welding. But yeah, the 65-72 LCAs are the way to go if you want something factory looking.
Fascinating. For about $300, that's a pretty decent upgrade to a cruiser. I with they'd done a little to make it look more "vintage," but I guess that's how they keep the price so low.
Vice grips is a bad plan. It can score the metal and that messes with the integrity of the bar. You'll need either the tool or a way to recreate the tool.
This one is $35 MOPAR AMERICAN MUSCLE 23461 Torsion Bar Remover/Installer A, B, E & C Body
And there's this one for $40 1960-1976 All Makes...
I've seen it done before in the charger location. You can't use the whole trim plate like a charger, but you can have the Barracuda cap there. I'll see if I can find a picture of the flip cap. I think it was in a craigslist ad.