He does have that interface part for sale for whoever wants to do the GM Corvette swap plus tech help on the install.
The wiper switch is on the column as well as the headlight switch.
The telescopic feature of the Corvette column is motorized and it has a tilt feature as well.
Sounds like it would make a very nice way to go with a custom interior?
Ask him to email you the installation manual for it.
Here's one on ebay for $500.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2005-2...AOSwl8NVdz6c&vxp=mtr
Here's another for $120.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Corvet...AOSwu4BV10-N&vxp=mtr
I think you will need the steering wheel with it though but in doing the wheel also you are putting so many of the controls right in front of you. Cruise control for one.
It IS changing the entire concept of the controls in the car. Like I said, if you are doing a custom interior, dash, console this is something that you need to consider even if you immediately dismiss it.
It does take a lot of the hand made Italian feeling out of it although if you look at what Lamborghini has done here with this Adventador, they have yielded to a higher technology and let go of the past I think?
You industrial designers will notice that the fitment criteria of the Aventador's "dash assembly" could be virtually fit into a Pantera? The space it fits into is so similar?
I personally don't like the feeling of this car sitting behind the wheel. The car feels bulky and not sleek.
It may be THE design place to be in 2015 but to me it feels like "Battlestar Galactica" from the '70s? You peek over the dash board. Does Lamborghini know it's customer? A rich kid driving a video game?
I wonder about his hair cut? Is it a Mohawk or a $1,000 CEO scissor cut for the 'board meetings'?
This interior seems massively over contrived?
It shows me nothing of "form following function". It is like a industrial plant-scape. Needlessly creating alleyways and corridors to purposely create so much visual activity as to confuse a criticism?
The Pantera interior dating to an earlier time and expectation even though involved for its time is more graceful and predictable to me?
Neither do I equate flying a current high performance fighter plane with driving a ultimate performance car. Some do. Just a difference in perspective?
The '71 wiper switch with an intermittent device added to it is the better way to go I think. It is the simplest solution by far.
Having said that, Jon was saying that he had difficulty with getting the Pantera wiper motor to park the wipers properly after adding the intermittent feature. The Pantera wiper motor, according to him, does not lend itself well to the intermittent device simply.
It would run on after it was shut off.
There was additional electrical design incorporated into the Pantera-Electronics Corvette conversion control board to correct that and make it park properly in his solution for the Corvette column.
I just suggested the Corvette steering column as a continuation of the thought of "modernizing". Modernization is not always the best way to go.
Do you really want your early '70s Italian sports car to compete with this Lamborghini? I think it is out of it's eliment? I mean the Lamborghini is.
