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Subject:Re: Strange & Neat instrument on Samba
From:BenT Syncro
Date:Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:25:22 -0800

On 11/21/07, Chris Lisica <wavanagon@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It appears to go up to 20, that can't be it! Hahahaaha, I crack myself up!
> Just kidding, I had to.
>
> I looked at it again, and it does look like it could be MPG. That would be
> cool to have.

It's probably a vacuum gauge which some cars came with as an MPG meter. I
can't remember which one of my cars had this feature. I think it was an old
BMW. Anyway, the goal was to keep the needle to as high as possible. Running
high-RPM's dropped the needle. The bad thing was it encourages me to lug the
engine.

AC Cobras had reverse reading tachs so maybe this is from a kit.

BenT