Not sure if you're still looking for a picture of the radio in that dash opening, but I just came across this on Facebook. Baja Charlie has a sweet 1 owner Econoline for sale over there, and it has the original radio plate in place.

That's just awful!

Yes he is!

Just got my 2020 Chevy same deal!

My buddies from Rolling Death VC went to go scope this van.

1. They could not get it to start even with a good battery. They spent about 30 minutes messing around with it. Probably would fire but was missing something that they couldn’t diagnose at the time.

2. Had a huge drivers side conversion window patch that apparently didn’t look great.

3. Wiring looked to be a hot mess and apparently the current owner zapped himself pretty good while working on it.

G20 shorty.

Thank you all! I've had mine apart a couple times over the last couple years, and would like to avoid doing it again until I'm ready to install a finished part. There are 2x G-vans in the yard local to me, but they are a 1992 and a 1995, and both have a 1.5 din stereo. I am hoping that it won't be an issue for this project, guess I'll see when I get it out. I am planning on making the whole insert as 1 part, so hopefully it won't matter (I would cut out the entire vent/radio section and this would replace the whole section). I am hoping to grab one of the dashes maybe this weekend if the weather holds out.

As for the ducting, I do remember that it is a formed plastic duct supplying air to the center vents and it was pretty low profile. I am thinking that, depending on the space constraints, I may be able to cut the OEM ducting back, and 3d print some adapters that would attach to the original ducting profile, those would adapt to a flexible type of hose between the original duct and the new part.

The other thing I just realized (Thanks Wedgy for bringing it up), is that the newer vans do have some sort of duct going into the lower doghouse cover. My 1985 van was a cargo van and does not have whatever that ducting is. Is that tied into the ducting for the center vents? From the pictures I can find, the lower vents are pretty low, I would think they would tie into the floor ducting? Maybe someone with a such-equipped van can confirm this for me? If those are in fact tied into the upper/center vents, that may be an issue for this fitting *all* models.. It looks like both of my potential donor junk yard dashes have this lower doghouse ducting, so worst case I can look when I get to the junkyard.

We'll see. Step one is to get a mock-up dash to play with.

What about rust? It’s a Minnesota van with snow on the roof. How bad is it?

Beauty !!

Sounds like my sales skills...i always aim for sub $1000 dollar vans, the only one I paid more for is my 73 g20 and it was $1500. I found non high top conversions are getting scarce.

Aye! "IT's, AMAZING!"
Just be a wee bit careful how you mix your alcohol.

Great time and hope to see ya soon.

Nice starter van for someone.