Swingin' Needles

[Flat Ernie]

Love that Pierce dash!

[49ratfink]

this is a great thread. should be done about every 6 months...

[327-365hp]

Originally Posted by 50Fraud

That boat is the tits. Do you know what sort of engine that is?

It's a Curtiss engine in Horace Dodge's 1927 boat

[burbanite]

Post from the last gauge thread...

Originally Posted by burbanite

Why, these things are cool...

Kinda O/T in a way but knowing Ryans interest in race cars I thought I'd throw in a few pics of some older tachs, one makes it in terms of the cutoff year, it's from a a '69 Brabham BT29 here at the shop...









This one is outside the cutoff year by a few but I thought that the fact it is from Mario Andrettis' F1 Championship winning Lotus 79 that we could let it slide...

And yes, it is actually registering RPM at the time of the first picture.

[alchemy]

Originally Posted by mcload

Here is a pic of the instr. panel on the Venus, circa 1953.

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.

[alchemy]

Originally Posted by 49ratfink

I always liked these green ones. I have had several... never a tach or speedo though.

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.

[mcload]

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

[COOP666]

Originally Posted by Cshabang

COOP..badass shot of Varnis Cdan on the first page...

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.

[327-365hp]

Originally Posted by myke

This is all I have

I feel bad for you Myke. I'll trade ya a dozen 2 1/8 flat glass SW for your crummy gauges

[mcload]

Originally Posted by myke

This is all I have

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

[duffro]

my turn. The dash in my special.

[duffro]

I forgot a before picture

[OL 55]

Originally Posted by Drewfus

Now that's the SHIT right there.........sweet !!

[Bluto]

English stuff? C Jag

American stuff

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

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

[MIKE-3137]

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.

.

[327-365hp]

Here's a few shots of gauges where they belong..

Bobby Green's roadster..



Speed King 3 window cockpit..

[banjorear]

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

[banjorear]

Cool old SW speedo that I found in a $1 pile at Hershey

[myke]

Originally Posted by mcload

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

I don't think it does, but I will check it for you.

[mcload]

Originally Posted by banjorear

Cool old SW speedo that I found in a $1 pile at Hershey

THAT was in a $1 pile?! Holy Moly!