Cool new gauge set up

[70cobrascj]

https://newvintageusallc.mybigcommerce.com/71-73-mustang-w-console-aviator/.

 

[will e]

Interesting. Would like to see it installed.

 

[Sheriff41]

Looks better than digital gauges, IMO.

 

[giantpune]

I like the center ones. Not sure how I feel about the big gauges having a check engine light in the tach and a blue brights indicator instead of a red horsie.

Maybe if enough of us pester them, they will start selling the center gauges without the others.

 

[Spike Morelli]

I've been eyeballing those Aviator guages for my center guage cluster replacement for months now. To me, they look like a real close replacement for the stock guages, with those orange needles, and, they have a look of no nonsense. I like the fact that this company has engineered the bracket to hold the three to the stock center dash piece. My stock speedo and tach and gas guage work fine, as is.

 

[jakosaur]

I've looked at a lot of the aftermarket gauge sets, but I could just never let go of my red horse highbeam indicator.

 

[basstrix]

Those look really nice. I wonder if they have the small gauges with overhead needle pivot? I really like that about the OE gauges.

 

[mrgmhale]

I prefer the gauges with Dakota VHX units, where all of the gauges are in the driver pod, and nothing is moved to the vertical center console. That leaves me room to mount my Garmin Drive 51 GPS/Backup Camera display. Some may find the inclusion of the coolant, oil pressure, and voltage gauges a little busy, or a little too small. But, I prefer that to the center mounted gauges. Here is a link for a video that shows what I an using on the center vefrtical bezel instead of the three center mounted gauges that were optional in the 71-73 Mustang:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSxEBNDKp7o


That said, the Vintage Classic analog gauges do look nice. Far nicer than the original idiot light laden instrument panels I had in our 73 Mach 1 and 73 Mustang Convertible.


Here is an image from the Dakota site for the VHX analog gauge products:

https://www.dakotadigital.com/index.cfm/page/ptype=product/product_id=922/category_id=434/mode=prod/prd922.htm

For anyone preferring the digital look Dakota has that also: