Technical Vintage gauges

S/W gauges; Sentry tach.

 

Old gauges,hummm,some really cool looking dash's in here ! For me actully starting in the 50s I used what I could find for free in junked cars,took them home. My fav. was out of Studebakers. Some things don't change a lot. I've hooked up a good number of new for other buddys,but my own rod gets leftovers from the parts box. At one point had SW oil an water,but oil failed,so just pulled a working leftover out of parts box. Maybe some day I'll find another SW oil. For now they work,I don't do a lot of gauges. I always kept my own simple,oil,water an speed=1928 speed-O dose work,but bottoms out at about 75.

 

Goodness gracious. I'm pretty sure that triple gauge pod is worth more than my blower! '57 F-code T-bird?

 

This is NOS and a beauty......literally looks like fuc.ing jewelry to me...... .

 

I have a few of those Rochesters......the temp gauges a getting hard to find.

 

Yes , too often the line to the sender is junk. I was lucky and found a good SW gauge for my latest coupe- 25 bucks at a swap.
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‘33 Chrysler for my A coupe. Got it at Jalopyrama two years ago. At Williamson’s getting Ron’s treatment.

 

Best I can do is retro styled modern gauges.

 

I bought a $5 electronic donor tach to provide the guts for my oldie S.W. 2 piece tach with the back section removed. Works great!

 

Recently I have been trying to off these vintage gauges. A real military oil pressure gauge. Electric. Don't know about the sender. But it followed me home from Ft. Lewis in 62.And a rare vintage boost gauge. Says CIE on it. Looks like it could use some calibration. Anybody who can use either of these, feel free to make an offer. I don't expect to retire on them.

 

Will this work in the long therm? Asking becouse it is not magnetic only centrifugal. Am i right that in this type of tachometer direction is not importand becouse of the weight action inside ( which is the same no matter from left or right rotation direction)
Is it already mounted and used? ...just curious

 

Bought these 35 Buick gauges @ Carlisle …..


… and after having them refurbished installed them in my 32 5-window ….

Pretty tight fit - they just made it in there!

 

Not in use yet. I plan to send it to Williamsons Instruments to have it checked out before use.

 

The Harley cop speedo from that era looked almost identical to that one. Good looking dash my friend.