For Joe Trybulec

[Bernard M.]

Joe,
Is this the tach housing you were asking about a couple of weeks back? It has what appears to be a '56 tach mounted in it but the description of the dash is similar to the picture of the 8000 RPM tach shown in Noland Adam's book.




Ebay tach listing

[Joseph T.]

Re: For Joe Trybulec

Bernard..thanks for the post. It is very interesting. Before the column mounted 8000AC tach was available and even afterwards..racers moved their dash mounted tach to the column for better access.

It appears to me by looking at the pictures that a bracket was attached to the dash tach w/rev counter ..so it could be attached to the column.

This could be from an SCCA race car, club race car..or an even more important factory backed race car..very difficult to tell...without the history of the car. I am always the optimist that the car and or part is special!

The rev counter showing over 300,000 revs divided by 2.8 the normal formula to establish mileage..would result in 100,000 miles plus..that confuses the issue for me as it appears the tach was added many years ago..but who knows.

Below is a picture of a very early 57 airbox car..and a very special column tach and tach faring mount or cover and bracket.

Joe Trybulec