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Gauges

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Everyone one can see your gauges when you’re parked in the paddock. With the renewed emphasis on period correct appearance a set of Auto Meter gauges will seriously jeopardize your credibility. You may be able to hide those 6-piston calipers behind your steel wheels but you sure can’t have an Auto Pro tachometer with that giant shift light. Everyone can see that. Cobra Worse yet everyone knows that no one used a shift light in their 1960 MGA. In addition to looking period correct though you also want your gauges to work properly. Fifty-year-old gauges can work properly and maintain the period correct look. When our cars were actively raced no one cut up the dash to install fancy gauges. We used the gauges that came with the car. Actually most of us were too poor to afford aftermarket gauges. At any rate these gauges worked just fine back then and they should still work today.    There are two items we need to consider. Gauges need to be both reliable and accurate. Reliabilit...