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1987 el camino tachometer for sale12/3/2023 Not that I intend to go fast with that thing, but it looks cool at the car shows.įinally, about time Jim mixed it up. The tach sat on a pallet rack for 40+ years, but I put it in a 1943 MB Jeep with a SB Chevy, 6″ lift kit, and 36″ tires. Just crank it up to 60 MPH (about 5200 RPM) and put the PowerGlide in drive. Plus the rear tires were spinning.” The last question was “where are you going?” HOME Officer, straight home.Īt that point he must have thought that I was sober enough to make it homeĪnd he knew that legal services could fight any charges long enough for me to graduate and get out of the country, so he let us go.īTW – the 62 Impala is still around, but it doesn’t need a tach. But I can tell off the tach, knowing the engine RPM, transmission gear ratio, and rear end gear ratio, I can tell my speed.” “So how fast were you going?” “I don’t know, the tach light is burned out and I can’t see it at night. “You were going sideways.” “Yes Officer, but I was in my own lane and going straight.” “How fast were you going?” “Well I don’t know for sure, the speedometer is broken. Kingston’s finest didn’t like that and stopped us. I came around a corner onto Johnson St, gassed up the Mopar 413 and went up the street about 15 degrees sideways for 1/8 mile or so. After a party, a friend and I went to an early breakfast with a couple girls we knew and headed for campus to take the girls back to their dorm. The Imperial made it from PA to Kingston ON and ran good until I graduated. Since the speedometer didn’t work, I borrowed the aftermarket 2″ dash tach that I’d installed under the dash of my 62 Impala that was stored for the winter. I “inherited” Dad’s 64 Imperial (beater) hunting car to drive back to college after Christmas in early 1975. What’s your suggestion, keep this one, as is, for posterity, or go for it and just install it? Is this DIXCO tach rare enough that it should be consigned to a collection as opposed to being put into service? A company called Scott Drake does offer new hood-mounted tachometers but they retail for over $400 – then again, there’s no telling where the bidding will top out on this NOS piece. As I recall, the HEI unit was introduced in Model Year ’74 so this tach is from at least then and perhaps later. In trying to date this piece, I would suggest that it is from the mid-70s based on the instruction sheet which illustrates a GM Delco-Remy HEI unit. If you’ll note the similarities, the biggest difference, among others, is the Yenko name stamped prominently in the lower center. The seller of this tachometer likened it to the one that was installed on Yenko’s 1970 Chevrolet Nova “Deuce” and in fact, Dixson did supply the components that Don Yenko employed on his hot-rod Nova. I guess that I just assumed they were OEM specific to the marque and not necessarily a universal piece. More recent purchases have been small Auto-Meter under dash units – I can honestly say that the idea of buying a hood-mounted tachometer never occurred to me. I have purchased tachometers over the years and particularly remember getting one through the Sears catalog back in around 1971 for all of about $15. In 1987, Dixson sold out to Ametek, a firm that continues to this day as an OEM supplier to a multitude of industries. Dixson ended up taking over the operations of General Meters in 1963, a financially failing company that supplied the DIXCO tachometers with its internal movements. Nevertheless, they were popular, and as you can see from the above image, Pontiac and its 1967 GTO, was one of the first devotees.ĭixson Incorporated was formed in 1958 by Bruce Dixson and his focus was on tachometers, a gauge that was frequently not found on U.S. It has to fight extreme temperature changes, moisture, bright sunlight (fading), and Ham-Handed Hank slamming the hood. I always thought that a hood was a challenging environment for a gauge like a tachometer. It is located in Santa Cruz, California and is available, here on eBay for a current bid of $375 with 37 bids tendered so far. And for your review today, we have a NOS DIXCO tachometer from Dixson Inc. The idea caught on and just because you owned a car that didn’t offer such an option, you could get your own from Dixson Tachometer, hook it up (drill a hole or two) and you were off to the races. It was a different twist on a performance equipment visual and placed the needed manual transmission gauge right in the driver’s line of sight. Way back when there were certain manufacturers, like Pontiac, that thought it would be a good idea to mount a tachometer on the hood. OK, let’s mix it up a bit and skip the sum of a car’s parts and just talk about the parts, specifically, the tachometer.
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