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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote 1973gts Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 05-December-2019 at 3:46PM
No problem, John, car is still at the bodyshop and won't be back for a while, I'm just working on bits and pieces til it gets back.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Uante Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06-December-2019 at 4:23AM
Looks like a nice fill-in of that hump cut-out. Can't wait til I get around to installing my console!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote 1973gts Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06-December-2019 at 5:27AM
I know the feeling, been taking a little longer than I had anticipated for the body/paint work to get done but shouldn't be much longer now hopefully.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Big Bird Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30-May-2020 at 4:20AM
FYI
Some 72-76 Mark IV and Thunderbird have a console as well, never seen a floor shift, but a nicer, more "luxury car" feel. Same layout on the same floor pan and fits a Mark V, so should work if you run across one.
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I am considerably late to this party, however as I enter, I can be a bit fashionably late.
I have a floor pan section I can get specific measurements on for the two small brackets.

Now, on my 72, the floor brackets I had did not have the large plate for the “horseshoe” bracket.
Mine is just screwed to the floor.

I would like to get actual placement details of the front clip however as my console doesn’t have that bracket.
I have one but never installed it.


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here’s a pic from before I tore things apart…… you should be able to extrapolate from there……

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Originally posted by Uante Uante wrote:

Great picture of the floor and brackets. I'll be needing all brackets if anyone has extras. Not sure I can use a front one as the piece where the slot is, is broken off my console like a lot of others I've seen. 

They’re mostly broken because people take the screws out and then pull/yank, not realizing that they need to slide it FORWARD the unhook from the front yet. The plastic is very brittle, and it doesn’t take much pulling or lifting to snap it. It snaps so easily that just about nobody even feels that it was hooked to begin with.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Eliteman76 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27-March-2022 at 12:07PM
Thanks Dave! I am going to see about snagging dimensions on the floor section I have.
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