if you look at pretty much all the manufacturer's cars from the same period,that was the style used. the sprinter dash has a good layout IMHO,and is simple.
as for a transplant,you could possibly swap an AE82 dash into one,but why would you bother really?
are you referring to the whole crashpad shape,or just the cluster? I've seen plenty of custom instrument clusters in sprinters,but noone I know of has ever bothered to change out the entire dash for anything else.