The Dash Pad Mounting Kit is an OE-style restoration hardware set designed for 1968–1969 Chevrolet Chevelle, Malibu, and El Camino models. This 12-piece kit restores the factory-correct mounting method used to secure the dash pad to the dashboard structure, ensuring proper fit, alignment, and a finished factory appearance across the upper dash area. It is a critical component for classic muscle car restoration parts projects where interior accuracy and correct dash fitment are required.
From the factory, GM used specific fasteners and retainers to properly locate and secure the dash pad along the windshield base and instrument panel. During restoration work, these original mounting components are often missing, damaged, or replaced with incorrect hardware during dash removal, repainting, or interior refurbishment. Improper mounting hardware can lead to poor dash pad alignment, uneven gaps, or lifting at the windshield edge. This kit addresses those issues by supplying OE-style components matched to original factory specifications.
Manufactured as an OE-style reproduction, the components in this kit are designed to match original sizes, profiles, and mounting locations used on 1968–1969 GM A-Body dashboards. Correct mounting hardware ensures the dash pad seats properly against the dash structure and aligns correctly with surrounding trim, gauges, and windshield molding. This level of accuracy is essential for stock restorations and detail-correct interior rebuilds.
The 12-piece configuration provides complete coverage for dash pad mounting points on applicable models. This kit is well-suited for full interior restorations, dash pad replacement projects, or corrective repairs where factory-style mounting components are expected.
Offered as X-Parts by Auto Metal Direct, this dash pad mounting kit is a third-party OE-style replacement selected to meet AMD’s standards for fit and application accuracy. X-Parts provide dependable solutions when AMD all-new tooling components are not required, while still supporting factory-correct restorations.
Auto Metal Direct is a team of true car guys with years of experience in sheet metal reproduction, car restoration and paint/body work. We believe that quality is not subjective! Our mission is to provide the best customer experience for the Ford, Mopar and GM classic car markets - both in products and in service.
Our panels are made from proper gauge steel and include all correct-as-original clips, tabs, flanges, bends and seams. Each time a prototype body panel comes off of a new tooling, we test fit it on a car. The marked up prototype is then used to change and improve the tools, and a new prototype is produced. This procedure might be repeated multiple times but, once the part is finally approved, you can be assured of a quality part.
| Make | Model | Years |
| Chevrolet | Chevelle | 1968 - 1969 |
| Chevrolet | El Camino | 1968 - 1969 |
| Brand | X-Parts |
