Collecting and Restoring Gauge Clusters

[abyars111]

That looks great. Sure I'd like to see a pic of one made up.

[Calfdemon]

Ok I messed one of my speedometers up. I wanted to clean the face of it up but did not want to get anything in to the workings so I used windex on a Qtip Don't do this it takes the numbers off. live and learn.

Uhhh... Yep. Don't ask me how I know.

[69Ford]

Top One is the harness I made. Bottom is original. Stole the wiring our of a f100 setup sacrificed it. Its been a while since I did this but if you look I made sure the plug was far enough over to reach the plug in the truck the original position works but it is tight. Just don't know how to mount the blinker yet so it is just not hanging. Sorry the picture doesn't show the blinker very well. Also just finished a model Willy's coupe. I have to many hobbies.

[abyars111]

The harness & model look nice.

I always liked the Stone Woods Cook WIllys. I believe I have two of those Willys kits assembled. I have a whole attic full of models I've built and some unbuilt kits I bought on sale years ago..

[69Ford]

I painted the background of my newest cluster semigloss black rattlecan and disgusted how it turned out and going to start over. I think the next time I'm going to use my airbrush with a lacquer paint. Now not looking at the paint job how's the black background look.

[abyars111]

The black looks nice. The chrome rings really stand out.

My favorite is still the all chrome.

[sargentrs]

I'm curious to see black with white face gauges Can't make up my mind which way to go with mine. I don't feel like my bezel is pristine enough to pull off chroming it.

[69Ford]

My bezels are original chrome by no means perfect but very nice driveable. I have been out to white gauges website and have not seen them for the F500 setup. If I find out some one that does them I will post.

[sargentrs]

Thanks 69Ford! I'll be putting aftermarket gauges in mine and bouncing between black or white faced gauges. The bezel color will push me one way or the other. But, of course, I can't make my mind up about that either. All of yours look great original. Since I'm not using them, and you're such a collector, I'd be happy to send you my old gauges. I won't be using them for sure.

[69Ford]

went to the whitegauges.net website and they have a wishlist dropdown menu for white gauge overlays you would like to see made. In the dropdown menu it only has options F550 and F800. Is the F550 the same gauges I have. It looks like they need enough requests to make it worth it for them. Go to the gauge request tab

[sargentrs]

Thanks for scoping it out for me!

[69Ford]

sargentrs how much would you need for your old gauges and are they the pre 70 gauges orange needle's and also any parts you will not need. Thanks

[sargentrs]

Just pay for the ride. I really didn't pay any attention to the needles. I'll check tomorrow but I think they were white needles. I'll send you everything I've got except the bezel.

[abyars111]

I'm wondering if I can fit these gauges into an F500 bezel when I find one. The center cluster looks the same as a F500 to me. I like that they have number markings. I'm tempted to buy them to hang on the wall.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/321300058596?ss ... 1423.l2649

[sargentrs]

sargentrs how much would you need for your old gauges and are they the pre 70 gauges orange needle's and also any parts you will not need. Thanks

Looks like I don't remember things like I probably should. Are these what you're looking for? I forgot it had the vacuum gauge with it, too.