Finished my CB installation tonight. Looks straight forward but its taken me 20 hours! Alot of that time spend filling plastic with a breathing mask so I didn't inhale it. But then I always take a ridiculous amount of time to do anything on the car.
I cut the ashtray out, and fabricated a bracket to hold the CB. The bracket screws through to 2 screws inside at the top of the ashtray, and has a couple of bolts through another bit of metal which is part of the shell further back. So no drilling into the car required! I've also bought a new lower dash off ebay so it will be nice and easy to change it back to standard if I have to!
I don't smoke so don't really need the ashtray. I'll just have to keep my spare fuses in the arm rest now, along with the Valvemaster. And I've lost the cig lighter too which I use for my cool box, but I'll wire a little block of 2 or 3 of them into the glovebox at some point.
Ashtray cut out:
Bracket in place with CB bolted on. I might spray it with hammerite at somepoint:
