Period correct tach ideas?

[Bill Rose]

Yikes! That's a lot more info than I was expecting. I learned a lot. I now know everything there is to know about the old tachs. My concern at this point is the size of the tachs. I'm not sure I want to put a full size tach on the steering column, and have to move it off to the side, and I'm not going to drill any holes in the dash. I have a friend has a nice used Sun tach, that I can use, but the large diameter has me thinking twice.

I have a set of 2 silver face Autometer under the dash, for water temp, & oil pressure. Autometer makes a 2&5/8 dia silver face tach, that goes with that set. Certainly not the old school look I was asking about, but I may go that route for now. Thanks again for all the comments. When my head stops spinning, I can make an educated guess, as to what I want to do.

[Salvatore]

Bill, In 1970 I bought a Sun SST-806 tach and mounted it to the column of my 69 nova with No issue at all. I mounted it hose clamp style right behind the turn signal switch. I had an original steering wheel on my car if that helps. If your column does not rotate you can also mount (which I did) a Sun Oil and temp gauge on either side of the column. I believe Don White has whatever you need and is NOS vintage parts. Next is traction bars and headers!

[68l30]

Heres my favorite "mini tach" ....pretty tough to find, but nice if you can fit a 3 gauge panel.


BIG

[68l30]

Heres a few more early Tach choices from Auto Meter ( sticker was on it when I bought it ) , another Mr. G , Faria ( tough to find) , and for the hard core Day Two... Stahl.

BIG

[PxTx]

I was searching ebay last night with your challenge in mind Bill. Came across this fellow selling a group of ST Stage 3 gauges. Thought the yellow would work well with the colors on you Nova.

[WILMASBOYL78]

Bill...our black 70 L78 survivor 4 spd car had the 8,000 rpm Sun blue line unit on the column...it will move with the reverse lockout so you have to position it correctly for viewing. That tach was put on the car in Dec/69...SW greenline gauges for oil and water were mounted under the dash. I replaced with newer GM performance gauges that are made by Autometer...saving the original stuff for a future effort.


wilma

[napa68]

I had an NOS mechanical Stewart Warner converted by Classic Insturments to electronic to use in my 67 Nova. I like the way it looks and sure seems to be accurate. In hindsight, it was not too smart.............I had north of $400 invested in it. I can post a pics if you like.

Tim

[Plowman]

Post pics please Tim.

[danachevroletfor1967]

I never had a performance car back in the day to put a tach on, but I remember looking at and dreaming about a Sun tach. I think they had a "Mario Andretti" endorsed and model tach which is what I would have bought if I had a car to put it on. I don't know about the quality of re-pop's as compared to original, just saying that if I was looking for a tach now it would definitely be a Sun, preferably an original.

[Plowman]

Sun was the only tach with the crowd I hung out with. Mine I bought in the 60's is still working great!

Had to look up the Mario reference and found this?