Air vent mounting vent issue solved by brilliant friend

[NMVair]

Let me know if I'm just dum but the side vents in my 64 Monza are a pain in the arse.
All around, getting them out and putting them in and rebuilding the flaps etc etc. I got some good replacement ones from a local cirvair guy but even those weren't perfect.
THEY ALWAYS SEEM TO HAVE THE PLASTIC BROKE WHERE THE KICK PANEL, CARPET AND GRILL MOUNT.
I think because you can't see where the screw is going its hard to keep the little mounting clips on right and if that plastic is broken forget it, just forget it.
Of course mine is broke and to complicate things I have one of those speaker mounts Roger Parent makes. It's heavy and awkward and the whole project is in a place a contortionist would shy away from. But, Dave, my friend came up with a brilliant solution.
The darn housing has a place that is perfect to put a place for a piece of wood to be slid in to use for the mounting screw.

[NMVair]

He fashioned a piece of scrap wood to fit perfectly.
He even shimmed it in there and drilled a pilot hole for the screw. But even if he didn't drill it the wood wouldn't have any where to go if it would split.

[NMVair]

Pretty cool huh?
Once the wood was in place I wouldn't call it a breeze but it went in easier than screwing with the clips on a broken piece of plastic. I would have never thought of this. We thought about gluing the wood in but shiming it tight was the way to go, better, for us anyway.
If you have trouble with this it might be a solution for you.
Let me know whatvyou think about this.

[NMVair]

It worked great