New Style Car: Gauges

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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

the Seattlite, and other cool stuff from Karamelocycles.blogspot.com

the above is a cool shot if the interior of the Alexander Brothers "Deora" custom dodge van

the above is the prototype Mustang if I remember correctly

Above is a copy of the Davis car brochure

tow a motorcycle with a Fiat... cool!

these shots are from the 1951 Buick LeSabre prototype that was in the GM styling cross country tours and car shows of the Futureliner and Autoramas. Above is a very cool design around the steering wheel, below are real cool looking gauges

all from http://karamelocycles.blogspot.com/

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

from the company known for making taxis in France in the 1910-1930's... this terrific race car came, the 1924 Chenard and Walker roadster

I love to find cool new gauges, and these are unlike any I've seen before

A barometer, or an altimeter? To adjust the carbs for rich or lean?

The speedo, tach, and gas gauges are incredible...

Litres d' Essence wow, what a great language!

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

1923 Avoin Voisin factory research race car, the C6 Laboratoire, simply a most amazing innovative and obscure try at a racecar from airplane engineers

Quite odd looking, maybe the strangest I can recall ever seeing

Why it has a prop on the nose, I'd only guess that it's for airspeed. Boardtrackfan commented that he thinks its for a water pump

and I was astonished to see it has the actual "Windscreen" that I've only heard of but never seen before

Click on the above gauges and get a good look at the full size... those are pretty unusual

and a square-ish steering wheel... boardtrackfan reminded me that this isn't so uncommon, it's so the driver has a better view when driving straight, and more legroom

here is the big indication of the aeroplane style engineering they brought to their race car... cable brakes. But not connected to the brake pedal, this is independant front and back brakes for a racing advantage

Monday, December 26, 2011

My very cool sister scored these sweet gauges and gave them to me for Christmas!

The temp gauge isn't missing, it's just dismounted for shipping to me, and I didn't put it back into the cluster for this photo, here is a similar set ina 30's Dodge hot rod at the Primer Nats http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/05/cool-instrument-gauges-in-old-1930s.html

Anyone know what vehicles they came from? I'm going to guess that the Chrysler gauges are from the 30's or 40's, but I don't recall ever seeing the bottom set.. anyone know what they are from? Such a low reading on the tach makes me think it was to a flathead, or a diesel.