1974 guages?, Silver button or not Options

[mburkhart]

I have a 74 that currently has a mixed bag of guages. I have read that they switched from the silver button gauges to the non-silver button guages in 1974, but that a limited number of 1974 cars did come with the silver button gauges.

Can anyone confirm that any 1974's came with silver-button guages? If so, any idea on when the switch actually occurred (vin number, perhaps?)

I have a complete set of both guages, but I prefer the silver button personally. I'm not a purist, but my car is mostly stock and I kind of like knowing that my car looks like it did 36+ years ago.

[Tom_T]

Good info on gauges & MYs here -
http://www.p914.com/p914_gauges.htm

The disadvantage to the black center gauges - other than my preferring the silver bullet look myself (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) - is that in a bid to save costs they went to plastic covers from glass, & got rid of the L&R turn signal indicator lights in favor of the old-school 60's VW style single TS indicator light for both L&R. They kept with that for years at VW as their prices climbed, & it really ticked me to have a $25+ 88 Westy with just one friggin' TS indicator light! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)