new integrated console for gauges and radio

[Stevehose]

@halboyles is making a 3 gauge panel for the speaker grille with angled gauges ... don't know if he has finished them or started selling them yet. if you are interested in this approach, contact Hal.

 

[deQuincey]

So, final setting and aspect, my thinking, this is the best I have been able to integrate in the surrounding console and dash
chromed rings would have been better, but,…this is life, almost

 

[deQuincey]

I agree with Arde, they both look great! Everyone has a micro hindsight thought, I guess...Mine is that the wood tray, which had a previous purpose, now looks overlain with the gauge assembly, and looks odd. I like DeQ's comparison pictures with and without, that shows best what I mean. With a gauge assembly, I think my preference would be to lose the wood tray, and instead have a black vinyl-covered tray with a back wall/lip that would prevent coins, etc. from sliding under the unit, and "complete" the unit.
Both look much better than my car, so I will now shut up...

a good point, Dave, but I prefer to see the wood as it gives a connection to the dash wood

 

[Stevehose]

chromed rings would have been better, but,…this is life

Consider VDO Series 1 gauges?

 

[deQuincey]

Consider VDO Series 1 gauges?

yes, thank you,
i like the motometer ones
series1 i checked back in the day and not available here +
is the Fº and PSI thing,...not for me

 

[deQuincey]

It costs me every step, don't ask today after spending two weeks free time preparing connectors and cables, when it was finished, and I'm going to try, for a question that is irrelevant I have seen the antenna fly away

an hour to put it back in,....oh

but now...

 

[deQuincey]