How many 1st gen trucks had tachometers?

[campfire]

Came across this again while browsing for parts (it's been up for a while without any takers), and noticed the gauge cluster looked odd.

http://greenbay.craigslist.org/pts/5327486200.html

Is this tachometer setup an obscure factory option? Or some aftermarket gauge? I haven't come across one like this before.

 

[ekajkrats]

I would believe that to be an aftermarket gauge. The 67-72 were below the face of the cluster like the rest of the gauges and layout is similar to the speedometer.

 

[Greg72]

Came across this again while browsing for parts (it's been up for a while without any takers), and noticed the gauge cluster looked odd.

http://greenbay.craigslist.org/pts/5327486200.html

Is this tachometer setup an obscure factory option? Or some aftermarket gauge? I haven't come across one like this before.

That's certainly not a factory tach...

-G

 

[sweetk30]

read a magazine atical years ago .

about 2% of 1/2-1ton got them .

and that's a nice job on install of a aftermarket one there .

 

[b454rat]

All the years I've been junkin only ever seen a handful.

 

[diesel4me]

I owned a '71 K5 CST that had a tach dash...and was stupid to let it go with the truck when I sold it,after I learned the dash cluster alone was worth about as much as I gave to buy the truck..
I have seen a few others in C-60 sized trucks from '67-72 also...those also had a vacuum gauge sometimes too..
If I remember right,the tach was where the gas gauge usually is,and the fuel gauge was moved to where one of the idiot lights would have gone..

 

[Greg72]

If I remember right,the tach was where the gas gauge usually is,and the fuel gauge was moved to where one of the idiot lights would have gone..

Factory Tach goes right in the middle....


http://s675.photobucket.com/user/72blckbuty/media/IMG_0346.mp4.html?sort=3&o=0


-G

 

[diesel4me]

Yeah,your right--been 20 years since I had that CST...its the later 73-87 ones that had it where the gas gauge usually goes.....

 

[Bigblue7-2]

This is my cluster on my 72 CST

 

[campfire]

Factory Tach goes right in the middle....


http://s675.photobucket.com/user/72blckbuty/media/IMG_0346.mp4.html?sort=3&o=0


-G

Thank you, Greg, that was exactly what I wanted to know.

 

[campfire]

and that's a nice job on install of a aftermarket one there .

I agree. Most of the aftermarket gauges that I have seen are obvious. This one was not (at least, it wasn't for someone who didn't know what a real tach looked like).