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My wife bought me a retro-looking but modern stereo and Kenwood speakers for my '41 for Christmas last year from Classic Car Stereos. The car never had the optional radio and speakers in it.

Mounting the radio looks straight-forward enough but I'm puzzling over the speakers. I want them to mount so the sound comes from the existing speaker grill in the dash above the radio but can see no way to mount them other than drilling through the dash, which I'm not going to do, and installing two bolts. Need to get more creative than that.

Has anyone installed after-market speakers under the dash of a '41 or other car that did not come with speakers originally? I'm thinking if it had come with speakers, there would be some type of mounting hardware already installed. But, alas, it did not.

I had a 1948 Fleetline. I mounted a stereo in the glove box. I had an original radio in the dash. I gutted out the radio tubes and the speaker. I mounted a 6x8 speaker in the radio box to come out of the original location.

I now have a 1938 Chevrolet sedan and mounted two 4 1/4 speakers under the dash. I made small boxes for them and mounted them above the kick panels behind the dash. I use an Ipod that connects to a blue tooth amp that is mounted under the rear seat. With this set up, I did not have to install a stereo anywhere

As it looks now, unless someone has a better suggestion, it looks like I'll need two 3/4 x 14-15 inch flat strips of steel with a slight bend in them to form two supports between the top and bottom of the dash, machine screwed to the top lip and held in by pressure at the bottom ridge (or, I may put a bend in the bottom of the strips and also machine screw these up from the bottom of the dash).

If it works and someone else wants to know what it looks like, I can take a picture or two after I'm done (assuming it works).

And I thought my cobble-jobbing days were done after my first car (a '72 Dodge Polara).