328 Radio Block Off Panel

Carmine,

Unless OEM is a 'Must' along with the severe wallet drain, a guy in the UK makes them for much less and they are indistinguishable from the OEM ones, IMO.

He is advertising them on ebay from time to time. I got my 308 plate from him.

Ill try to get you a direct contact address a bit later if interested.

 

It's just a DIN-shaped piece of wood/plastic/whatever with black vinyl covering. Pretty sure you could fabricate one in an hour or two.

 

Please share the contact information when you get it. Thank you.

 

Here are two photos of a factory radio delete plate. The dimensions are 7-1/4” x 2-5/16”.

Good luck,
Alan
N.J.
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The brown radio delete plate your showing I purchased from Javadog a couple years ago as Duane (GatorFl) had a 328 GTB with a special-order brown leather dash which the delete plate was originally part of. I wanted to re-unite the delete plate with Duane’s car and later learned that Duane had sold the car to Scott (GS Scott) who I finally was able to reach and deliver the plate to.

Attached are photos (front and back) of an original delete plate I purchased several years ago from Ted Rutlands. One can tell an original by looking at the underside of the vinyl covering and locating the black line that runs the length of the vinyl. The delete plates are becoming near impossible to find as you know. Hope this helps in the reproduction process.

 

I would also be interested the in a plate. Group buy?

 

Thank for the info. I sent him a note on eBay.

 

Great, thanks.

 

And they're only about $40, so I wouldn't think there's much discount potential for a group anyway.

 

Works for me.

 

I have also been in contact with roboheroes. My exchange with hi. Is below.

Thank you for your response. Yes, I got your contact name from Ferrarichat.

I am fine with the metal plate finish being different but I want to be certain of the following:

- the black vinyl material is precise

- the 328 backing is much different than the 308’s you made. On the 328 there is a center fixing bolt rather than two on each end.

- there is a smaller metal plate that affixes to the bolt, one side of the plate is curled along the horizontal ends.

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On 11/8/18, 5:35 AM, roboheros wrote:

Re: jeffrey1359 has sent a message

Hi,

Thank you for your interest, I believe you have found me through another gentleman who is looking to have the Radio Delete fabricated for the 328. He has kindly sent me some images and dimensions. I'm in the work shop today so I will cut out the plate metal for some of these (i'll probably make 5) and prepare them. What I will say to you is the same I said to him, the originals were just thr…

 

We still need to get him the dimensions for the small bracket as well as the length and size of the center bolt. We should also be certainthe metal bracket has the horizontal curls on it.

 

The small metal backing bracket measures 70mm x 32mm, and the lip is 7mm tall. The metal thickness is 1mm.

The mounting bolt on the back of the blanking plate protrudes 15mm and is 4mm thick.

I hope this helps.

Alan
N.J.

 

Thank you

 

Does snyoknow the thickness of the metal of the plate?

 

Thanks for doing this. I have messaged back and forth with him as well but I’ll let you take the lead, though I still believe we need the thickness of the delete plate metal. Alan - do you have that?

 

The thickness of the radio delete plate is also 1mm.

Alan