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[-] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't think there is much cabling in the dashboard of that 1970s exotic.

[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

I’d bet the gauges and dash are still in the vehicle.

[-] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Wouldn't that be mechanically driven from this era?

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Yea, speedo would be a spinning steel wire in a sheath, everything else possibly be electric (tach, oil pressure/sensor, if it even had that).

[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Oil pressure was actually an air tube, and coolant temp was a copper pipe. You had to be careful not to kink them or your gauges wouldn’t work.

Though the 70s was the transition away from that late 60s tech.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A lot of it was still analog, which is so much worse. You'd still have the basics, speed, ignition, engine temp, oil, alternator (?), RPM, light switches.

Edit: steering wheel...

[-] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That seems to be part of the steering column? But I'm not sure.

[-] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] TimeNaan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Oh shit, that's a Holden? I was expecting a European brand.

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