Don't cut the dash..cut the radio?

["Kevin Abato" <delorean@xxxx>]

Ok...So I have a little over an hour commute every day, and it allows me TOO
much time to think.

I want to remove the original DMC radio and replace it with a
tuner/cassette/cd changer that used to be in my wife's old car about a year
and a half ago before it got totaled in an accident (her new car had a nice
radio, so I never installed it). I do not want to modify my dashboard, so I
figured...WHY NOT MODIFY THE RADIO!

It has a detachable face plate, and only the connector socket and display
are on the radio. I removed them (one piece) to see what was behind them,
and low and behold...NOTHING! They are attached via a series of 20 solder
points.

This is my thought......

-extend the connections of the display and connector socket with a ribbon
cable.
-remove the cover plate and mount it, the display and connector socket on
the OUTSIDE of the DMC Dash, with ribbon cable wires going into the existing
dashboard holes to the other end of the actual radio on the inside of the
dash
-Mount the radio inside the dash, and align the cover plate with the rest of
the unit. Find some nice way to keep it all lined up, and....WAHLA! Snap
in the removable face plate and you are ready to go!

This is just an idea, but I will take digital pictures and let you know how
my research works out! Can't do too much more right now until I get the car
back from PJ Grady later next week some time.