1959 Speed Shop Part 2: Gauges!

[Jive-Bomber]

On the back side of the Hot Rod Revolution, its time to get back into the 1959 Almquist catalog and flip to our next chapter after manifolds. What is ...

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[T-Time]

Originally Posted by Jive-Bomber

On the back side of the Hot Rod Revolution, its time to get back into the 1959 Almquist catalog and flip to our next chapter after manifolds. What is ...

To read the rest of this blog entry from The Jalopy Journal, click here.

Interesting to note that the catalog shows S-W's with the big logo, small logo, blue line, and wings, so any of these would be correct for a (very) late Fifties build.

[49ratfink]

vintage gauges give me wood.

[JeffreyJames]

I like when I see the mix and matching of gauge needles and such done by the MFG. I am also a gauge nut but still have a ton learning to do. I don't nearly know the differences as well as I should and would like to learn a shit load more about European gauge building an use.

Almquist catalogs are the shit!!! I could study them for days!!!

I have a 5" Script Stewart Warner Tach with a crescent style needle that I would like to find out more about. I want to know what they were originally meant for? It does not appear that they were intended for Hot Rods though.

[Bugsy]

I think it's the same thing that draws most folks to the cockpit of a vintage plane as well....something about all those gauges and meters!! They are works of art in themselves. I think that the dash of the car can make it or really break it. On a small scale, it's kinda like being drawn to mission control at Houston...all those dials and needles!!

[Shaggy]

Originally Posted by T-Time

Interesting to note that the catalog shows S-W's with the big logo, small logo, blue line, and wings, so any of these would be correct for a (very) late Fifties build.

According to what i read They stopped making big logo's in 57or 58, and wings in 53 or 54, and convex in '56?

[Jive-Bomber]

Originally Posted by JeffreyJames

I have a 5" Script Stewart Warner Tach with a crescent style needle that I would like to find out more about. I want to know what they were originally meant for? It does not appear that they were intended for Hot Rods though.

Could have been Military or Industrial- Lots of those around:

http://www.roadsters.com/sw/#military

[zipoleon]

I want one of those mini-tachs!

[39cent]

Originally Posted by Shaggy

According to what i read They stopped making big logo's in 57or 58, and wings in 53 or 54, and convex in '56?

around 56 -58 we just wanted to use SW gauges, but i didnt see the wings, or i would have got them. later on I saw wings in older rods. I do recall the blue ones but even then we were somewhat traditional, and I didnt go for those, too fancy, as i recall I was sorta traditional even back then, when we were putting a lotta new gadgets on, ie 4 speeds, automatic trans,open drives, etc.

[T-Time]

Originally Posted by Shaggy

According to what i read They stopped making big logo's in 57or 58, and wings in 53 or 54, and convex in '56?

That's my understanding, too. That is why I found it interesting that they were all in the 1959 catalog. Either it is wrong that they had stopped making them, or there were a lot still unsold by 1959. Either way, they would be correct for a period built at least to 1959, since they were still being sold.

[39cent]

the blue gauges were around for awhile, in customs and such,but it wasnt 'cool' to have them in a roadster in my locale, we had some older rodders around the riverside area, [both lakes and drag racers] and us youngsters followed thier lead. I mean if you had a rod and they looked it over at the drive in, and didnt have a good response we knew we screwed somethin up. ggggg. If you had a beater and thats all you could afford, the work couldnt be 'mickey mouse'.