Trinket Tray....OKA "Junk Tray"

From Dennis C.

Here is the tray from 8MA1244. It is vinyl, on the crude side, not very fancy. Seems to me it may have been a standard item as many cars have them, sort of bizzare since it has been stated many times that the radio was not a factory option ??



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From vyprgt2

I have seen trays that are not part of any assembly that holds a radio- see the Mangusta in the post by Mark above or this one.



Note by moderator: This is the "standard" tray, but a great shot of the heater control lever positioned dead smack in the middle of the tray!

From Johnny Woods:



Posted January 24, 2010 02:05 PM Hide Post
Steve,

I will post step by step pictures of the Goose retrim I'm doing when it's finished. Here's a picture of my friends car, it's the one we drove back from Rome last year. Notice the lovely Ghia radio blanking plate. The clip-on ash tray is from an aircraft and not original!

Johnny

Note by moderator: This is from 8MA1216.



GREAT side view!

All the 'gadget trays' pictured are from late cars finish-assembled in Stuttgart Germany, using Mercedes, BMW and who-knows-what detail parts. An article in the Feb '10 POCA Newsletter describes the sequence of events, based on a suggestion from Wellis with further info from Roland Jaeckel in Germany. Armin Fischer verified he finished the last 55 Mangustas outside Stuttgart in a detail shop- roughly 8MA-1192 to the end of production including all the known right-hand-drive cars. So maybe we should be looking at early '70s German cars for a match for the pictured gadget trays....

Hey Boss, The yellow car above has the early dash (Steve's car is in the late 800 with the early dash) from my recollection I have seen early dashes up to 1068 and lates dashes as low as 820. Not all early dashes have the tinket tray, but I think all late dashes have them..

Don't know if there is any sense or logic. What's Steve say: 'Your mileage may vary..'

Denis

Jack,

My edumacated guess would be that these were a custom made part to fit in the confines between the center spine top and the bottom of the dash.

What I would REALLY like to know, is where the under dash AC unit came from in most of the cars....but that is something completely different!
Steve