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Originally Posted by Rockcrusher
Thanks. I bought an old road race Cosworth Vega back in the late 90's that had Autometers in it with a chrome bezels and red pointers but got varying reports when it was originally constructed.
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The Auto Meter chrome bezel which looked like Stewart Warner came out late 70's. Autometeer made industrial gauges since the 40's/50's and started making automotive tachs late 60's. Came out in 1969. Their first automotive gauge was these below which came out in 1973.
1970's had a fat bezel and early lettering/ logo. Fuel pressure has no safety warning on the gauge face about not to use gauge inside car. Modern day equivalent 2 5/8 have a thin knife edge skinny bezel and say Sport Comp on them. Modern day vacuum only has a black and white face.
Rare to see the early ones nos. Mostly used and the aluminum bezels are dented to heck or beat up by racers