I would like to get the dash out of my 64 cutlass, I have removed every fastener i can find, and the dash seems mostly loose. Currently it will rotate down away from the windshield but it is still connected on the bottom front corners. There is a bracket that seems welded in.... can anyone give me a hint here?

 

I didn’t want it to be spot welded in but it was. 3 on one side and 5 on the other

 

Why not just pull the dash pad not the steel dash ?
Gerald

 

For years. Who knows how long the car sat with a broken windshield. Some kids had thrown a cinder block through it.

water got under the tar and rusted away maybe 75 percent of the connection to the windshield channel and the channel itself The bottom edge of the dash where it curves back towards firewall also collected a lot of water. And is now super thin even though the paint on the front seems to be all there is holding it together in places.

so I’m going to repair what I can with it out and figure out where to cut the top off where there is good metal. Set it back in. And then repair the section at the windshield

this and the rot in the trunk is what stopped this project dead in it’s tracks when I disassembled it 20 years ago. Didn’t have to skill nor money to fix it