A little while ago I refurbished my speedo, tacho, and all five minor gauges. Guy (bless him!!) remarked that he couldn't live with the major and minor gauges being different.
Suffering from OCD, I then recommissioned another set of four gauges in the correct font, that then inevitably lead to me looking at the battery condition gauge (the only one I hadn't recommissioned) every time I got in the car, and gritting my teeth!!
Back tracking a little, the original cars had an ammeter in the dash, but not relishing the thought of 120A running in the back of the dash, and concluding that a voltmeter was both safer and more informative I decided early in my ownership to use one of these instead.
Veglia Borletti never made the battery condition/voltmeter in dual language or with the correct font, so I commissioned one, and finally yesterday I fitted it, having arrived in the post a couple of days earlier.
I also find a time clock very useful in the car, and have had one fitted since first getting the car, originally this was in place of the oil temperature gauge, before I made the necessary changes to incorporate one
but of course this original clock wasn't in the correct font, and despite refurbishing this one with the other minor gauges it also started to grate.
One from a S1 Fulvia is graphically matched to all the other now fitted gauges, so I tracked one down, and when it finally arrives, we will have graphical harmony in the cockpit, quite sad really!!
One final note, Guy also gave me a scrap Dino tachometer, to copy the graphics, an excellent illustration of how helpful people within SEC are to one another, many thanks to him and all of you for the help and advice I've benefitted from.
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