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Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by COOP666, Jul 18, 2007.

  1. Flat Ernie
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    Love that Pierce dash!
     
  2. 49ratfink
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    this is a great thread. should be done about every 6 months...
     
  3. 327-365hp
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    It's a Curtiss engine in Horace Dodge's 1927 boat
     
  4. burbanite
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    Post from the last gauge thread...

     
  5. alchemy
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    These are all Stewart Warners except the outer two on the upper row. They are probably made by US Gauge Co.

    The speedo is an SW that was converted to higher speed by the Maring Co.
     
  6. alchemy
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    These are called "Twin Blue" <= for real!! It irks me to no end when people call these things by names like Custom Series or Greenline. There's too much mis-information in this hobby, so stop perpetuating if you don't know. I have the catalogs to show it.

    As for finding tachs and speedos in the Twin Blue pattern, you will see 200 small gauges to every speedo you find. And, most of the speedos are marine, so they won't have an odometer. Tachs are almost as rare, unless you want an electric, and they are only half as rare.

    Yes, I'm passionate about gauges.
     
  7. mcload
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    Thanks Alchemy; I appreciate the info. I tried a Google search of "the Maring company" and turned up zilch. What do you know about them?

    Patrick
     
  8. COOP666
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    That's from Deuce Day at the petersen, I think... I took a bunch of photos of that one. It's one of those cars that doesn't call a lot of attention to itself, but once you start looking at it, you realize it's perfect.
     
  9. 327-365hp
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    I feel bad for you Myke. I'll trade ya a dozen 2 1/8 flat glass SW for your crummy gauges :D
     
  10. mcload
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    Hey Myke...that speedo guage looks very close to the 140 mph guage that was in the Venus, except for placement of the odometer. Does that speedo have any kind of year date on it?

    Patrick
     
  11. duffro
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    my turn. The dash in my special.
     

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  12. duffro
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    I forgot a before picture
     

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  13. Now that's the SHIT right there.........sweet !!
     
  14. Bluto
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    English stuff? :) C Jag

    American stuff :D

    Miller........1915 International Harvester Times were simpler in 1915

    French........ 1932 Rosengart Van
     

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  15. MIKE-3137
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    Great post.. Heres my 33 Plymouth insert in the roadster, the gauges were junk, so I cheated and put new gauges behind the stock plymouth bezels.

    [​IMG].
     
  16. 327-365hp
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    Here's a few shots of gauges where they belong..

    Bobby Green's roadster..

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    Speed King 3 window cockpit..

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  17. banjorear
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    Cool old SW speedo that I found in the $1 pile at a local swap.
     
  18. banjorear
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    Cool old SW speedo that I found in a $1 pile at Hershey
     

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  19. myke
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    I don't think it does, but I will check it for you.
     
  20. mcload
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    THAT was in a $1 pile?! Holy Moly!
     
  21. banjorear
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    McLoad- Yup, pretty neat, huh? Still has the mounting bracket attached as well.

    Since then, I hit every $1 pile I see hoping to finding more cool stuff.

    I also picked up (both are now sold) a Judson blower gauge & an Eelco white faced amp gauge for $.10 cents at a garage sale. Guy was a VW nut & had them in a Bug.
     
  22. Rem
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    Here's my contribution, an NOS WWII-era (I think) marine SW gauge set:
     

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  23. 49ratfink
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    ?? so what do they call the blue ones? twin green? there is nothing at all blue about this one.. I have seen blue ones on ebay, but that could be due to lighting or whatever. as a matter of fact.. I believe the buyer of this one had purchased or was selling the ones I saw that were definitly blue on my monitor. I call them green ones because they are green. did SW call them blue?

    not that important really... just call them cool.
     
  24. 36C8
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    Here's some I've owned
     

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  25. 36C8
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    A few more...
     

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  26. 36C8
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    Here's what they look like in the wrapper...(it cost a little more than a dollar to get this one..:D)
     

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  27. banjorear
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    Pretty neat. Do you know the story behind the land surveyor speedos?
     
  28. COOP666
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    I'd kick my mother in the shins for that American Lafrance gauge panel.
     
  29. 36C8
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    Her's a couple for your gramma and grampas shins:D
     

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  30. 36C8
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    They made them up into the mid-1960's, and they are basically the same size and layout as a 1934 Ford SW speedo. They were calibrated with higher tolerances for measurement and accurate speed estimates.
     

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