I see your point... but reverse engineering the rear layer bezels has really been a great learning process for me. The actual rear layer is square.flat and will allow me to dimensionally adjust for the front curvature of the dash bezel. I've self taught myself the programs, and 3D printing process. Not only am I completing a new bezel, I'm further learning the programs and will be using them in my future business with a CNC router system. Additionally, I have contemplated the production of these items. Do not want to go into this too much and get anyone hopes up as other post have in the past, but too many threads/post of people who want a 2din kit which is not available. Seeing some of the post and cost from stereo shops is really quite ridiculous (guess I'm in the wrong business! jkin lol) I have done the manual Frankenstein custom/cut dash panels before, and to me its quite easy... but being a bit of a perfectionist there is always that one spot of bondo/filler that is to high or to low or paint didn't come out as anticipated or this didn't line up just perfectly with that screw .... you get the gist.
I come from a family of "jack of all trades", and rather than manually concept I wanted to computerize the process. Plus, the initial layout of the center console dash isn't the most ergonomic... having the computer model allows me to 3-dimensionally modify and make changes without physical action/waste (the cupholder is just one point that was never done correctly and I do have a thought or two on this but am waiting until I have the overall bezel simulated before I add further).
I'm putting really more into this project than I really should, but this car means quite a bit to me. In high-school I bought a 97 Chrysler Sebring convertible in candy apple red and had more fun and memories than I ever thought I would. My father even purchased the car from me, trying to save my first "sporty car" but my family's irony claimed the Ol' Red Sebring in the same manner as his first sports car (my father had saved his 1st sports car, an old 57 Chevy. Had not been worth much but more sentimental value (many stories of out-running the old police cars, or what size of engine he put in... ect) The old Chevy met its demise in the early 2000's... my father parked the vehicle back by the old chicken coup of the family farm decades ago, and always kept the weeds and growth trimmed away. When lighting struck a nearby elm, my grandfather had no concern for the old car and allowed the vehicle to become engulfed in flames. (yes this is only material items, no one had been hurt... just my grandfather tried to save the chicken coup; which nature had reclaimed and was irreparable, rather than his sons sentimental memories). My Sebring met a similar demise, my father had been working on the car that had been sitting for a few years. He took the car out for a drive around our small hometown of Lyman, Iowa (population 50) when the car caught fire, and burned just as the same ending fate of his own 1st sports car. Again, thank goodness no one was injured and when he called me to tell me what had happened, was more worried about the car rather than himself knowing the same feeling from his experience. I was just happy he hadn't been injured, and happily joked he'd be buying me a new convertible (he would've and attempted to buy my a convertible few times after the incident, but I would not allow it). 2018 and I got my convertible again (on my own of course)! This time, more love of a car than ever before... for the new memories always brighten the smile of the bad ones!
I come from a Mopar family... being the 3rd generation mopar the Chrysler Crossfire is a one-of-a-kind that will be a collectible (at least in my eyes for sure)!
RIP-2014 - 97Sebring