Pete,
I think you hit upon the anomoly in your second post.
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He said when he took delivery of the car he was not happy about this council mounted multiplex
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If he was unhappy with the control unit taking up all the room on the console door (as a
lot of people were), the dealer may have done something like mount an Underdash unit (bottom picture) on top of the console instead.
And for the record, I agree with your original owner. The console mounted controls were absurd and it took up most of the room in the console, making it virtually useless! In addition to Mark's picture above, I've included a few pictures for you to look at. You can see the control unit under the console door and how much room it takes up. If the dealer installed an underdash unit on top of the console door (as it appears yours is), that would explain everything. As you can see by the last picture (AM/FM with the underdash multiplex), it looks just like yours. I'm also assuming that the dealer probably covered it with the same type of cover that was used on the 8 Track player (probably from another model), to make it look nicer than just a metal box sitting on top of the console.
At least that's my theory...
Ed
