news car magazine: speedometer

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Various photos from El Cajon Season opener car show

Just nice!

This is the strangest speedo.... the digits aren't inside a gauge face... the bar is below them, and this looks so incredibly 1st grade. So cheap. What was Ford Design thinking? they once upon a time had the slogan "Ford, we have a better idea" must have been after this designer was fired, and put the others on notice.

As rare as a 440 4 barrel GTX is... I never thought I'd see a polished rear valance panel... kinda cool!

Says it all... even includes his phone number

Wow, one of the best pinstriped trunklids I've ever seen... Cisneros is the artist, damn... wish I knew how to contact that guy... that's awesome!

Sunday, April 1, 2007

2007 Del Mar Goodguys, my dashboard fascination is fed with manna

This dash is a beaut, might be bakelight, maybe plastic, but a sweet simple design, look at the temp buttons below the radio... heater controls? Just great design all around, speedo to radio aspect, color combo... all of it.

This is from the sweetest Imperial there, very high dollar mods, but the hood and trunk were up, and it would have been a lousy picture of the exterior, next time.... notice the leather wrap on the steering wheel, which ia a perfect styled design, and the HUGE speedo, and realize it's nearly 1/2 as big as the wheel... must be about 10 inch diameter... push button trans too, and leather dash. A pic of the exterior can be seen at http://www.moparmax.com/events/2007/ii_4-dm-4.html

This Lincoln dash is terrific, easy but small guages, and I think the style of the small zeros in the speedo is cool, they aren't needed, and save space by making them 1/3rd the size of the numbers. Just above the steering column are the temp and air controls, almost un-noticeable and not cluttering up the area under the radio.

I think this is from a Merc, dual small ashtrays to match and accentuate the symmetry of the design of the speaker grill and speedo/clock design. Almost elegant. I'd give a 12 pack to know what is going on with the dual radio faces, the left appears to be signal strength, and the right is tuning, but I've never seen one like this before. A 30's woody maybe.