Hello, Ahhh, so she was the one who made my small custom tachometer find. I bought an old black tachometer at a Long Beach Surplus Store in South Bixby Knolls, or California Heights. I did not want a huge chrome Sun Tachometer sitting on my pristine orange dashboard. Not only would it stick out like a sore thumb, but it would have blocked the clear vision forward for daily driving. Afterall, the tach was just for show in my 58 Impala. My friend with his 57 Chevy Bel Air Hardtop sedan bought a shiny chrome Sun Tach and we mounted it on the far left side of the dash, as far as it would go and not hinder his forward vision. Those folks that mounted it near or over the radio area created two problems for us. One, it took an extra effort to look over at the tach when sitting at the starting line, while blocking forward vision.. Two, if one knows the rev limits by sound, then shifting the 4 speed trans or even a stock 3 speed transmission is following the limit of sound approaching as one accelerates. There is no need to watch the needle. At a stop light starting point, there are enough things going on to have to move the eyes to the tach. The countdown concentration of the yellow light going off and green light coming on, is the utmost advantage for most races. So, why a tach? Should we not all know how the motor is blasting to the rev limits prior to shifting? Or, in my own case, the tach is not the most important thing one uses as the throttle pedal is pushed down and the Impala zips across the starting line by a large margin. The C&O stick hydro does all of the work. I just needed to finalize the light procedure. Yellow off, green on… Jnaki It took me several weeks of scouring the Douglas Aircraft Surplus Yard, several aircraft supply stores and finally, our favorite store in Bixby Knolls, the Long Beach Surplus Store. The small black tachometer needed some work, but the owner showed me it did light up inside of the store. The tach was simple, but neatly in the dash location. It was the only one in the whole cruising area and it, too, also got taken when my Impala was stolen a year after high school. YRMV
Wow! that reminds me very much of my fav. camping ground in the Flinders Ranges,in Sth. Aus. Trees look just like Flinders Ranges pines...habitat specific.
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