This question doesn't really fit into the form I apologize but there's a lot of car guys here that are pretty Sharp and this form gets a lot of traffic Furthermore I have been searching online for about a week and even posted on a different form for Grand Nationals and never got a response I have never seen an odometer like this I recently purchased a Grand National And the odometer only reads four digits The car seems to be A pretty original car it looks like this could be Factory I'm just curious has anyone ever seen an odometer that only reads four digits Again thanks for any input
It appears that one is a trip meter but the other doesn't have enough digits to read 99,999 miles either. Good question, After finding another picture of the gauge set I wonder if the left odometer's "rightmost" digit should be black and not white??
Does the white digit read in 10ths or 1 mile, while driving? Maybe the odometer was replaced at some point, incorrectly with something else? All the GN cluster images I see, have 5 digits and the odometer only reads miles and not 10ths. Bill
It almost to me seems like it was either swapped out at some point or somebody goofed at the factory of course the car is 40 years old anything could have happened the past 40 years but it does look like a fairly original car I'm no expert but it doesn't look like the dash has ever been taken out It just strikes me as extremely unusual
We're still gonna be curious if that digit counts miles or tenths. I was thinking that tach looked better than no tach.
Back then, most of the odometers only read to 99,999 miles. Many did not have a 1/10 mile digit if they had a trip odometer (the 4 digit one), because the 1/10 mile digit was usually on the trip odometer. Most trip odometers went to 999.9 miles before rolling over, or could be reset to 0 by turning the knob or pushing the reset button. I believe that was because most people used the trip odometer to track the miles between fuel fill ups and would figure fuel mileage off the trip odometer. Gas mileage was simply dividing the miles on the trip odometer by the number of gallons used, and presto, MPG. Those trip odometers were great, until they quit working.
Most likely a repaired odo. Primary wheels(mile on odo, tenth on trip) have an additional driven gear. Can't use any of the other wheels as a replacement on the roller. If the original gear was damaged/stripped a white tenth wheel may have only been available... or 'borrowed' from another cars tripometer.
The shown instrument cluster is too modern to talk about here. Old car, old (or look to be old) gauges, nothing newer (or at least very few things newer) then what was available in 65 is allowed. I'm surprised this has not been moved to the off topic section already.
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