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[Desert Driver]

This is the underside of the console cover for the five adjustable levers on my '84. At the top of the photo is a cut out hole. At the bottom is a light fixture I found tucked well into the the console itself. It's part of the lighting harness for the console cover.

Here's the finished side of the cover, aligned to its ultimate placement. The knockout would be at the bottom of the photo, but it wasn't drilled through on the covering plate.

I'm thinking the tucked away light would have provided illumination for the A/C controls. But because of it's placement on the cover, the light probably would have been very distracting for the driver at night.

Anyone else have some insight into this Blake befuddlement? 

 

 

Edited March 28 by Desert Driver

[mfg]

  On 3/28/2025 at 1:04 AM, Desert Driver said:

This is the underside of the console cover for the five adjustable levers on my '84. At the top of the photo is a cut out hole. At the bottom is a light fixture I found tucked well into the the console itself. It's part of the lighting harness for the console cover.

Here's the finished side of the cover, aligned to its ultimate placement. The knockout would be at the bottom of the photo, but it wasn't drilled through on the covering plate.

I'm thinking the tucked away light would have provided illumination for the A/C controls. But because of it's placement on the cover, the light probably would have been very distracting for the driver at night.

Anyone else have some insight into this Blake befuddlement? 

 

 

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Fasten seat belt light used on earlier Avsntis, and then discontinued by ‘84 and left in harness?

 

[Desert Driver]

  On 3/28/2025 at 1:15 AM, mfg said:

Fasten seat belt light used on earlier Avsntis, and then discontinued by ‘84 and left in harness?

 

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Could be...sounds logical. But if it was pre '84, wouldn't that be a feature installed on Newman-Altman Avanti's? 

[ronmanfredi]

Fasten seatbelt light.