You won't want to use the speaker hole in the dash, it takes a lot to make that area not vibrate under high wattage modern radios and speaker(metal to metal contact okay with a quiet AM radio, bad with a 140 watt thumping radio). Not that it can't be made quite, and wouldn't be a great spot for a speaker, just a lot of work. Do you know they now make kick panels for A-body's with speaker holes molded into them? I wish I would have knew before I cut up my panels for speakers... Wish I could tell you the place to get them, I saw it in a Mopar magazine but can't remember the manufacturer. Also, many Darts/Valiants will have holes precut in the package tray, take off the board and either cut a hole in it or make a new board with speaker holes in it and your set. Using the kickpanels and the speaker tray will leave you with a system that doesn't hurt anything major, and will look good. If you want Bass you can stick a bass speaker in the trunk since it's just to make a good thump. As for the CD play, you could always stick it in your glove compartment.
For me, I was happy with a cheap 140 watt radio with speakers in the kickpanels and one speaker where my back seat used to be. I find a ton of bass distastefull for the people around you and a lot of work to make sound right in a 30 year old vehickle that doesn't have modern build quality(i.e., the old cars rattle easily). I suggest spending about $300 if you want a really good/long last/name brand CD player, and getting the $50 a pair aftermarket speakers from Walmart. This should give you more bass and loudness than you could possibly use while driving. My CD player was $150 and I honetly can't say I'm pleased with it. It's an Alpine and sounds great, has more loudness than I could use, but scratches CD's and easily skips. This is why I suggest spending so much on CD player.
-Shivadart
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A hole for the defogger fan motor is located right where the other speaker should go. We're going to have to get very creative for rear speakers.