Help identify a brace? from a ' 87 Monte Carlo SS

A friend pulled this part from his 1987 Monte Carlo SS and does not know what it is or where it goes back? (Or if it is important?) He thinks it is a brace? Thanks in advance for any help in identifying it. T

Can he narrow it down?

Underhood?

Interior?

Engine bay?

Looks pretty clean, under the dash?

He is thinking from the interior somewhere?

In reply to nicksta43:

Yeah, what he said. Clean, not too heavy, and the way the holes look, makes me think interior fastener.

Without any scale to go by except hardwood floor...

Could be an under-dash type bracket. radio, etc.

I am pretty sure it goes under the ashtray, I think I screwed my CB on to a bracket that looks like that

i'd guess somewhere in the middle of the dash, in the vicinity of the radio.. it probably keeps the dash from dancing all over the place...

Ashtray, radio or console.

If the car looks okay right now, works okay right now and sounds okay right now then I would throw that thing away... right now.

how long is it?

Some cars had X-braces behind the back seat, but this looks too small for that.

Gearheadotaku wrote: how long is it? Some cars had X-braces behind the back seat, but this looks too small for that.

i think the only G bodies that got the brace behind the seat were some Grand Prix models and the GNX... and it was a big stamped piece that went from one side of the car to the other that was welded in.

Maybe inside a door?

I think it supported the back of the giant factory stereo, which I'm guessing he replaced at some point.

the radio brace would have a large hole in the middle where the plastic nub on the back of the radio would stick into. the Delco radios don't have a bolt or nut that you have to reach back there to put on or remove- you take out the 4 mounting screws behind the bezel and the radio pulls out..