"burglar can't heart click anything" (burglar)
10/30/2013 at 12:44 • Filed to: None
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"burglar can't heart click anything" (burglar)
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Today's episode - The dash and lack of ergonomics, and what happens when you don't change a dash in 20 years.
Good: Nice round easy to see gauges. Secondary gauges aren't even obscured by the wheel. Central tach. My clock even works, which is supposedly on the rare side. Neat little manual pointer so you can time your drive or whatever. The headlight switch is beautifully simple - two position pull, turn for brightness. I read all the gauges are at a slightly different angle so that not all of them can glare you at the same time.
Humorous: The plunger pull for the fuel door is at a random angle. It's funny to use. The oil pressure gauge is labeled "druck press." Yes, that is the entire heat vent. They got bigger in 1986.
Asinine: The original 911 didn't have headlight washers, intermittent wipers, power mirrors, or a sunroof, so the controls are tacked on wherever the hell Hans felt like throwing them that day. It took me 45 minutes until I found the sunroof switch, and I flipped the mirror one about 15 times listening for something before I figured out what it did. The joystick for them is mounted on top of the driver's door. The wipers work with the right stalk like a normal car, unless you want them to go on delay. Then, you must turn them off from the stalk and use the little knob between the speedo and clock.
One more note, all the gauges are front lit. A reflector basically makes the light come from the outer ring onto the gauges. Not spectacular or even.
That steering wheel is a 1986 one. I've had three other steering wheels on there since then, I think I'm sticking with this one:
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> burglar can't heart click anything
10/30/2013 at 13:23 |
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New wheel is much better than the top photo. I love old car interiors.
Main reason: night time. No glare, no bunch of fiddly lights going on, no giant radio to fiddle with. Just some lightly lit gauges and the bliss of trying to pretend you're on the touge.
Downside is if you having something as complicated as what you just described, then I would literally not know where anything is without turning on a light lol.
EDIT: Just realized I used "fiddle/fiddly" twice in the same post. It is definitely Wednesday.
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> burglar can't heart click anything
10/30/2013 at 14:18 |
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i loved my 75 911 dash. totally right about the intermittent wiper/sunroof afterthoughts knobs. Thats because why did you have that shit in your 911 anyway?
On mine, the speedo was also obscured above 60mph, but I had an 80's 930 wheel which is a tad smaller than stock.
All in all one of my favorite dashes. Still mad they changed it on the 996.
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> burglar can't heart click anything
11/07/2013 at 14:19 |
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This strangely makes my desire to own an air-cooled 911 that much stronger.