The Dash Pad Mounting Kit is an OE-style restoration hardware set designed for 1970–1972 GM A-Body vehicles, including Chevrolet Chevelle, Malibu, El Camino, Monte Carlo, and GMC Sprint models. This 12-piece kit restores the factory-correct method used to secure the dash pad to the dashboard structure, ensuring proper fit, alignment, and a clean, finished interior appearance. It is an essential component for classic muscle car restoration parts projects where interior accuracy and factory-style mounting are required.
From the factory, GM used a specific set of fasteners and retainers to properly locate and secure the dash pad along the upper dashboard and windshield base. During restoration work, these original components are often missing, damaged, or replaced with incorrect hardware during dash removal, repainting, or interior refurbishment. Improper mounting hardware can result in poor dash pad alignment, lifting at the windshield edge, or uneven gaps across the dash. This kit addresses those issues by supplying OE-style mounting 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 1970–1972 GM A-Body dashboards. Correct mounting hardware ensures the dash pad seats properly against the dash structure and aligns correctly with surrounding trim, instrument clusters, and windshield moldings. This level of accuracy is critical for stock restorations and detail-correct interior rebuilds.
The 12-piece configuration provides the necessary coverage for dash pad mounting points on the listed applications. This kit is well-suited for dash pad replacement projects, interior restorations, or corrective repairs where factory-style mounting hardware is required to achieve a proper fit.
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 restoration solutions when AMD all-new tooling components are not required, while still supporting factory-correct results.
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 | 1970 - 1972 |
| Chevrolet | El Camino | 1970 - 1972 |
| Chevrolet | Monte Carlo | 1970 - 1972 |
| GMC | Sprint | 1971 - 1972 |
| Brand | X-Parts |
