they all look very cheap to me. The 1976 Cad dash reminds me of my 1979 Renault 4 (although the scale went to 120 km). I think taking out the meter section does not do proper justice to the dashes of these behemoths. I saw (and shoot) a couple of slightly older cars the other day at the Carmel concours and those dashes looked much impressive. I'll post some shots later, after we are done with the reports and the selection of shots for the mainpage.
In general I think nothing beats a nice selection of circular instruments.
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