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Originally Posted by Scott Thelander
well I guess I will put my NOS one in the car .. on the right
but
I still need another NOS 68 clock for my other rally gauge car also
anybody have one ??
I see franks has a dropped one ... for almost 3 times what I paid for my nos
Scott
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Scott, another avenue might be to have a new overlay made of the 1968 version face and apply it to the aftermarket clock.
I wanted to add a "period looking" tach to the 1948 International box truck I have. It is a straight 6 and only turns 3,000 RPM's, so used a VDO 3,000 RPM tach used for boats.
I had to disassemble the tach and pulled off the face plate and contacted a service in Florida that does gauge refacing and refurbishing. I drew up the design based on an actual International tach used by the larger road trucks of that era. I added a couple items to make it a little more unique.
I emailed the service with scans of what I wanted and he said he could do it using a Cad-Cam program he utilizes. So I mailed him the tach face. He had my scan of what I wanted, and then he first made a B & W replica to make sure the basic features were correct. Then he added the colors and other features and contacted me again with a scan. It was what I wanted, but needed the face to be more tan to match the truck gauges, rather than white. So he adjusted and emailed me the scan. When I said it was good, he made his overlay and mounted it over the supplied tach face plate.
It cost me $50.00 to have the overlay made plus shipping back and forth to Florida. I reassembled the tach, added LED lighting, and installed the tach in the dash of the truck and it works perfect.
I suspect you could go this route and then have on file the face overlay and even sell them to others. Fairly fast service and turn around.
http://www.customdials.com/custom_ga...1-2017_007.htm