If your radios are your thing then you will have probably come across the Motorola GTX before, its a cheap and cheerful yet powerful radio that can be converted easily to use the 33cm / 902Mhz band.  Only issue is, it doesnt come with an extender cable to allow the head to detach.  Robert Shulz over at the Yolo Amateur Radio Society blog has come up with a simple yet elegant solution that allows you to mount the radio anywhere you want and then mount the faceplate in a convenient place on your dash.

He has taken the ribbon cable and soldered a serial cable to it, along with a custom mount for the back of the detached faceplate, this allows him to mount the head on his dashboard and keep the main radio body out of sight and in a more convenient place.  He does admit that everything except programming the radio worked once the external head unit was attacthed but this was put down to a loose connection somewhere in the wiring loom.  You can see more pictures of the project and a details build log over at this link.