Instrument panel what year/model

Hi,

What year and model does this instrument panel go to.

Thanks

 

Don't know what it is, neat looking though. Is that shift points on the speedo.

 

corvair

 

That is what I thought too but I don't remember the shift designations.



Close but not exactly right. Maybe a special model? I got this pic from Google but it is a 160MPH could that be KPH?

 

good eyes, i did not notice that. i had an automatic, and mine did not have that. Greenbriar maybe?

 

I googled "1962 Greenbrier interior" and got photos of dashes that showed shift points

 

That's it 1962 Greenbrier with a stick. Thanks!

here's a link I found
http://corvaircenter.com/phorum/read.php?1,575604

 

this is funny. I had a Greenbriar when I came back from Nam. I do not remember the shift points on the cluster but that was 35 years ago. I put a sedan engine and trans in it that was part of the deal. No engine in it when I bought it.

 

I see the shift points. Didn't notice them before. I'm wondering how they work.

Don't see any lights or mechanism behind then.

 

They work like this: when the orange pointy needle gets up to the "2", you shift into second; when the orange pointy needle gets up to the "3", you shift into third; when the orange pointy needle gets to the "4", you shift into fourth. You can reverse the process on downshifts coming down, but remember that these are max rpm shifts.
If I remember correctly, Volkswagens had similar shift points on their speedometer.
Farmalldan

 

Maybe that 160 MPH was just to get Ralph Nader's blood boiling a little more. DD

 

I did a Google image search and this came up. It appears to be a before and after restoration. I never noticed the 160 MPH until after I posted it. I'm guessing that it was a special model speedo like a turbocharged Monza??

 

That's great thanks for explaining it.

 

160 in a Corvair???????? There is only one way I could ever see that happening.

Don

 

maybe from one of those fitch-prepped corvairs

 

I think it's european
it's k/ph

 

Could be I think if I recall 120 is about 65 mph.

 

here in europe the cars where much faster
a few examples

 

Yep corvair. I got 2 of 'em apart on my kitchen table right now.

 

I remember hearing about people running 160 on the autobahn in a Volkswagon. Used to think those were some screamin' volkswagons in Germany. Then I figured out it was KPH and while 99 mph is pretty damned fast in a Volks it isn't anywhere near as fast as 160 in anything.

 

By the same token, some of those old Packards must have been really slow...12 MPH tops? I remember my grandpa had a late '40s Packard, and that's what I thought (back then) looking from the back seat. DD

 

yep the 80mph speedos are for the FC corvairs while the 120 were in cars
the second gen corsa had 140