nine one "faux" six GT gauges, in the car Options

[Retroracer]

So I posted some stuff on this project already - on the "shelter in place" project thread - but thought I'd summarize here.

The goal was to fabricate replicas of two of the GT factory gauges - Oil pressure and temp, and the 66mm fuel gauge. Real ones, as you may imagine are pretty rare, collectable and fetch high dollar amounts.

FUEL GAUGE

So I found an 80's 60mm VDO fuel gauge NOS on eBay - which I bought for for $32. Wrong fascia, no "empty" light - but the casing, bezel and glass form a good basis.

As you may know, the 914/6 GT cars used a black faced, chrome dot, 60mm VDO fuel gauge with an "empty" indicator. It looks way cool and is one of those collection of things that people in the know will look for as they glance into any GT cockpit, to see how far the owner/builder went in their search to be truthful to the factory cars. I've seen recreations of these listed for $1500 on eBay. Which is ridiculous.

In order to duplicate this piece from what I had, I needed to:

- change the fascia from white to black, with correct lettering / ticks
- change the black dot indicator to chrome dot
- add a second bulb assembly for the EMPTY indicator
- change the electrical working range from 0-180 ohms to the 914 sender (70-0ohms)
- paint the internal bezel ring black

pics of the process follow:













Also for reference this is the VDO part number on the core:



With the casing basically done, I drew the fascia in PowerPoint, copying the fonts, tick marks, etc. then sent a out PDF to have a vinyl sticker printed and mailed to me. Seems a little ghetto, but it came out OK:











- Tony