Those gauges came out in the early 60's maybe the very late 50's and were very popular to the early 70's. Which would be the time frame the car was built.
Thanks Chris but I already scored two of those scoops. Got the Batwing too. No idea where I'd find those valve cover covers so probably going to make those.
I wounder if they are a raw (unfinished) casting for a 331 Caddy maybe a 324 or 371 Olds with center valve cover bolts that were never drilled? Very similar look to these Weiand for a 303 324
Funny, I was just talking to a friend this morning about the Reactor. Apparently the original was shown at Concourse d' Elegance in Pebble Beach last August. It was also in Mission Impossible in addition to the other shows you mentioned. It would be hard to replicate that car..unless you actually could get Gene to do it. Not something he'd probably do at 90 years old. Maybe it could be modified from a Corvette?
I think those are dixco gauges. Stewart warners never had plastic lenses to turn cloudy like that and if you really look the the pointer comes from the bottom center right where the S/W logo would be... Sent from my iPhone using The H.A.M.B. mobile app
Great detective work Moriarity. I didn't notice that the underlying face of the gauges were somewhat visible under the foggy lens. The middle one of the cluster of 3 looks like it might be an amp gauge. Amps is the only gauge in the cluster of 3 where the needle rests at the midline position. I can just barely see some numbers under there. I agree they are more likely to be Dixco than SW based on the origin of the pointer. But the ring is slightly different than the one pictured so it might be Dixco but from a different time period.
On the other hand could it be these SW gauges? The needles are in the midline location and the outer rings look like they match better.
^^^I'm with you on this one.... kinda. I've had many Greenlines in my hands and they never looked like that. Although the bezels in the Jokermobile thing do not look like those Dixco. I couldn't find a better photo, but to me, they look like Greenline knock-offs....EDIT: it appears they are a derivative of the Dixco gauges you posted. I've had a couple of these over the years, and my gut says that's what they were.
Bat, look again at the bezels. The 90* sweep Stewart Warner Greenline gauges that you posted have slightly different bezels than the 270* sweep bezel Greenlines posted earlier. I think they're the Dixco ones in the picture above. I like what you're doing. The Bat-Boat is BA!
Tim, Glad you like the BB. You and Moriarity are absolutely correct about these gauges. The fact that SW only used glass knocks them out of the running right there. The Dixco knock offs are a perfect match. if you look at the Ampere gauge there is a slight crescent cut out from the white circle at 6 o'clock. Careful inspection of the middle gauge (on the cluster of 3) on the Mongrel shows that it also has this crescent. Excellent! Thanks to everyone for the help. Now I just have to find those knock off gauges.
Good call on the Dixco with the plastic lenses... was wondering how/why Stewarts could end up looking like that !
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