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Then, sadly, your dream will be very difficult to obtain. Unless you too are prepared to devote a couple hundred hours

The two dashboards also have 2 distinct center console designs. Nothing inter-changes from one to the other

you can buy a fiberglass horizontal gauge panel and matching base from the vendors, but it will only fit the late one pod dashboards

what I did was buy just the horizontal panel, then added and subtracted to the edges so it properly fit my early console. Then I had to gut my console and devise a method to attach the gauge panel to my modified console base. If used with the late single pod dashboard there will be enough room for a touchscreen and the OEM HVAC controls. But when modified to work with the two pod Dash, as I did, there is no room for the OEM controls. There was room for the controls for my aftermarket HVAC unit, and I relocated the OEM switches to other locations.

Not saying you cannot pull this off for your car, but the task is quite the undertaking  

Larry

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I carefully trimmed away the center section of the console base, leaving about a half inch perimeter border. With careful planning and retaining all the overlapped upholstery I was able to avoid any reupholstery tasks

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using brackets I had on hand I was able to mount caged nuts in the four corners that allowed panel attachment using four  thumb screws. Brackets were fiberglassed to the existing console  

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