[bobzdar]

Originally Posted by thews

I'm kind of shocked you'd consider doing that. Wouldn't the "actual" mileage be in question if it was out of the car? My 69 Firebird 350HO convertible 4-speed has about 55K original miles. I bought a set of the "Speed minder" gauges for it, just because it's an extremely rare option. If I installed them, even with the original idiot light gauges, the originality of the mileage may be questioned, so I sold them this year. I do have an original set of stacked gauges with the original PCB dated 1969 for it, and if I install those no one is going to care that the originality is in question. Through all my travels combing junkyards in the mid 80's and car shows, I've only seen one set of original stacked gauges, and it was in a Ram Air car. I realize the gauges you guys are talking about look cool, but in a SD car?

Speaking of idiot lights, they rock. How often do you really watch the gauges to monitor the engine? If you do get caught up in driving and not check them for a bit, they'll let you know something need attention NOW! You typically have dial gauges too, so one vote for idiot lights.

It's a frame off resto with mostly new sheetmetal and freshly rebuilt engine, so not sure the original mileage matters. It doesn't to me. I also am not one to really care about preserving value for the next guy, that's like worrying about saving my wife for the next guy. Hopefully there is no next guy, and if there is it's after I'm no longer here to worry about it. I'll start the gauges at zero and keep the original with the car so there's a lineage, but...it matters a lot more to me current condition of a car than the mileage. Especially on a 50+ year old car. If you're worried about the gauges, you might really hate some of the VSE stuff I'm trying to find for it...