Best cal-look tachometer ?
herrvee:
mine is an antic RAC.It will be replaced with an old sun, at the same place this winter.
alfie the monster:
I like the autometer with big ole shift lights...
What better sight on a dark night than shift lights poping on in all the lookers around you? 8)
javabug:
I was going to run a Sun blue line from the mid 70s, but alas it was only for 8-cyl. So I found an AutoMeter line that matches that style pretty closely. I need to get some pics, but haven't had a chance.
Jon:
Quote from: DKK Rick on October 26, 2006, 19:13:55 pm
Here's my dash
I thought often about swapping the tach to the "center" position and the speedo to the left but that would mean I'd have to lose one of the other gauges for a fuel level gauge.
Gauges are speedo, fuel level, ammeter, voltmeter, oil temp, oil pressure, and tach
Rick
In my mind this is exactly how a period cal look dash looks like. I have the same sett up you have here. Except my VDO's have chrome rings, since I'm shaving the chrome on the outside I think I ought to change the rings to black.
I have like you thought about having the tach in the speedo hole, and use a 80mm cockpit speedo I have laying around in the old tach hole. Have been playing with the idea of converting the OG speedo to work like a tach too ;-)
Or just add a monster tach when I go drag racing, thinking about making some kind of snap mount on the inside of the glove compartment door.
Could you shed any light on whether it was "normal" to loose the dash chrome when the outside trims were removed?
Rick Meredith:
Quote from: JHU on October 27, 2006, 08:53:51 am
In my mind this is exactly how a period cal look dash looks like. I have the same sett up you have here. Except my VDO's have chrome rings, since I'm shaving the chrome on the outside I think I ought to change the rings to black.
I have like you thought about having the tach in the speedo hole, and use a 80mm cockpit speedo I have laying around in the old tach hole. Have been playing with the idea of converting the OG speedo to work like a tach too ;-)
Or just add a monster tach when I go drag racing, thinking about making some kind of snap mount on the inside of the glove compartment door.
Could you shed any light on whether it was "normal" to loose the dash chrome when the outside trims were removed?
Thank you JHU.
It was common to lose the dash chrome to match the outside of the car but not always.
Others would fill in the dash completely either with metal or with some dark plastick screwed on top of the existing dash. With either method holes would be cut in to mount gauges. Often the glovebox would be covered over as well.
I really never cared for either method... finding them plain and uninteresting. I really like the character of the oriiginal VW dash. I personally would not change anything on my dash. I even like the trim on the glove box door. It really breaks up that area nicely and adds visual "width" to the dash.
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