'59 instrument cluster - before and after - The 1947 - Present Chevrolet & GMC Truck Message Board Network

resin addict · 11-27-2004, 12:14 AM

Here's how I spent the day after Thanksgiving...
The insert and gauges are from Brothers, the instruments are AutoMeter Arctic White gauges, Brothers insert comes with oil pressure, temp, voltmeter, and fuel, all size 2 1/16", and a Speedometer.
I bought a matching 2 1/16" tach and 2 1/16" quartz clock from my local Auto Masters store, and took the voltmeter out of the insert, and replaced it with the tach, and then intalled the voltmeter and clock above my radio in the dash.
Finally accurate readings on the new 350, instead of the old style needle and hash marks.
Before and After:

resin addict · 11-27-2004, 12:17 AM

...And here's an overall:

Seon · 11-27-2004, 03:04 PM

Looks very good!

ShamrockCustoms · 11-27-2004, 09:30 PM

Wonderful! Lookin' good!

rico_bob · 12-07-2004, 09:40 PM

Way Cool!

DennyB · 12-08-2004, 02:26 PM

Looks great! I really like where you put your extra gauges.
This seems to be a problem with these trucks if you want more than 5 and do not want to go digital.
I was pondering using a goat or firechicken hood tach.
I will have to see what that looks like when I get closer to that phase.
Then theres the question of the bag gauges...???
I dont know if there even available in white, much less with matching pointers.

thebeemanone · 01-01-2005, 06:44 PM

Hi

WOW that looks great. I was thinking of doing this to my 59 now I know I will.

Thanks for the pictures.

Allen

3100 special · 01-01-2005, 07:16 PM

That looks awesome!

rico_bob · 01-15-2005, 12:45 AM

BTW The DICE are a perfect Touch! Rico

11-27-2004, 12:14 AM	#1
resin addict Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan Posts: 367	'59 instrument cluster - before and after Here's how I spent the day after Thanksgiving... The insert and gauges are from Brothers, the instruments are AutoMeter Arctic White gauges, Brothers insert comes with oil pressure, temp, voltmeter, and fuel, all size 2 1/16", and a Speedometer. I bought a matching 2 1/16" tach and 2 1/16" quartz clock from my local Auto Masters store, and took the voltmeter out of the insert, and replaced it with the tach, and then intalled the voltmeter and clock above my radio in the dash. Finally accurate readings on the new 350, instead of the old style needle and hash marks. Before and After: Attached Images __________________ "I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash." "In the depths of my heart I cannot help being convinced that my fellow men, with a few exceptions, are worthless."- Sigmund Freud

11-27-2004, 12:17 AM	#2
resin addict Registered User Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Grand Rapids, Michigan Posts: 367	...And here's an overall: Attached Images __________________ "I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash." "In the depths of my heart I cannot help being convinced that my fellow men, with a few exceptions, are worthless."- Sigmund Freud

11-27-2004, 09:30 PM	#4
ShamrockCustoms Project56 on hold Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Burleson, TX Posts: 489	Wonderful! Lookin' good! __________________ Shamrock Customs Forever-in-the-Future Custom Shop 2009 Mitsubishi Lancer GTS daily driver 1956 Chevy Stepside rodstoration on winter hold

12-07-2004, 09:40 PM	#5
rico_bob "Treasure the Ride" Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Mid Michigan, Harrison Michigan, USA Posts: 682	Way Cool! __________________ If you think you can you're right. If you think you can't you're still right. Trucks: '56 SWB; '57 SWB; '63 C-10 Current projects: 1963 Long Fleetside for the wife! '56 for the daughter. Visit us at: www.ricos-rods-and-relics.com

12-08-2004, 02:26 PM	#6
DennyB Led Sled! Discs R 4 ME! Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Toms River, NJ, USA (Transplanted Hoosier) Posts: 7,327	Looks great! I really like where you put your extra gauges. This seems to be a problem with these trucks if you want more than 5 and do not want to go digital. I was pondering using a goat or firechicken hood tach. I will have to see what that looks like when I get closer to that phase. Then theres the question of the bag gauges...??? I dont know if there even available in white, much less with matching pointers. __________________ "Never ride faster than your Angel can fly" I.M.O.M,W,J&C Patriot Guard Rider

11-27-2004, 03:04 PM	#3
Seon Registered User Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Northern CA. Posts: 503	Looks very good!

01-01-2005, 06:44 PM	#7
thebeemanone Registered User Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Middleburg, Fl Posts: 57	Sweet Hi WOW that looks great. I was thinking of doing this to my 59 now I know I will. Thanks for the pictures. Allen

01-01-2005, 07:16 PM	#8
3100 special Street Rod Dreamin' Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Work:Batam, Indonesia/ Home:League City, Texas Posts: 1,243	That looks awesome! __________________ 1954 Chevy 3100 Panel Truck 2004 GMC Yukon 2007 GMC Sierra 4X4 "I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it." Benjamin Franklin, On the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor, November 1776

01-15-2005, 12:45 AM	#9
rico_bob "Treasure the Ride" Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Mid Michigan, Harrison Michigan, USA Posts: 682	BTW The DICE are a perfect Touch! Rico __________________ If you think you can you're right. If you think you can't you're still right. Trucks: '56 SWB; '57 SWB; '63 C-10 Current projects: 1963 Long Fleetside for the wife! '56 for the daughter. Visit us at: www.ricos-rods-and-relics.com



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