A Deluge of Dashboards.

I’m leaving tomorrow morning for the East Coast. As is the way things work when going west-to-east, it will take me a day and a half to get there. Tomorrow I fly from Seattle to Newark, leaving mid-day from Sea-Tac and arriving in Newark around 8pm EDT. I’ll meet my dad in a hotel in Newark. The next morning we fly up to Burlington, Vermont fetch the car from RPM and then head off to the start of the 2008 New England 1000!

In the mean time, here’s a deluge of dashboards for all of you to ponder, some easy, some not. Behave yourselves while I’m gone! 😉 (though I can answer comments via my phone… amazing technology!)

Number One:

Number Two: (kinda obvious)

Number Three:

Number Four:

Number Five:

Number Six:

Number Seven:

Number Eight:

Number Nine:

Number Ten:

Number Eleven:

Number Twelve:

12 thoughts on “A Deluge of Dashboards.”

  1. What is number 5? Gauges in the door! That is just downright awesome, especially for someone information obsessed like myself.

  2. The point is to guess the car in question, not just ask me! 😉

    Some hints: It is a late 90’s supercar, that was actually a disappointment to many upon its release, as it had half the cylinder count of the prototype, but made up for it with twin turbos. It was, and still is (as proven by Top Gear not long ago) one of the fastest cars ever built. It is not pretty, but has a brutal sort of elegance to it. The interior however, is a bit … mundane… once you get past the door-mount gauges of course.

  3. number 5 – could only be Jag XJ-220…. butt ugly supercar

    but way too many others for me to cope with!!

    have fun on the rally Chuck … look forward to the blog…

    Jerome

  4. WOw Chuck,

    When it rains it pours. Christina just about fell over with the deluge of pics. So here is our stab at the pics

    Pic #1 – Bugatti probably an Allantique
    Pic #2 – Porsche 356
    Pic #3 – Series III Jaguar XKE
    Pic #4 – Jaguar XK-120
    Pic #5 – XJ 220 as already noted
    Pic #6 – Ferrari 250 SWB
    Pic #7 – prewar north american saloon
    Pic #8 – a prewar MG I ma guessing around 1935
    Pic #9 – Jag C type
    Pic #10- Packard race car
    Pic #11- Jaguar XKSS
    Pic #12- 1952 Ferrari 212 Barchetta

  5. No,
    Yes,
    Yes,
    Yes,
    Yes,
    well, duh… care to narrow that down? 😉
    Mostly yes… it is a K3 Magnette
    Yes,
    Yes,
    No,
    Yes.

    So Number 1 & Number 11 remain (plus half of Number 7)

  6. Ok, OK Chuck

    I figured the art deco french gauges would make it one of five marques Delage, Delahaye, Talbot-lago, Voisin or Bugatti
    . The delage and Delahayewould have had a pre-selector instead of a normal shifter. The Talbot-Lago ahd the shifter on the column and the bugattis have wood dashboards. The curved wiper arms on the cowl are specific as well.
    A; I tend to think it is a Voisin since they often painted their dashes the same coulour of the car adn used the Jaeger gauges. I couldn’t find one interior pic that included the shifter to verif. There is a possibility it is a Talbot-lago

    Ok, The dry sum and striaght gearshift made me think of and XKSS,. However the e-type indicators threw me. After more research I think it is a 63 XKE Lightweight Alloy

    Cheers,
    Shaun

  9. OK. #7 has to be a duesenberg

    #1 Yes please, throw me a bone. I have searched all th french and french hybrid builders (i.e Hispano-suiza) and cannot find an example of those cowl mounted wipers and painted dash.

    CHeers,
    Shaun

    P.S. How far west does the new england 1000 come?

  10. Hints:

    #1… you’re looking in the wrong country… this car even has the word “Italiana” in it’s name. 😉

    #7 is NOT a Duesenberg. It is not even part of that Indiana A.C.D. group, but the company does have an Indiana connection. You’ll just have to “Ask the man who owns one.”

    –chuck

  11. OK,

    picture #7 looks like a 32 packard 905 twin6

    As for picture #1 are you alluding that it is a FIAT. I looked through all the info on 30’s fiats and I couldn’t find anything with cowl mounted wipers and WTF would they have french gauges in it? Then you gave me the other hint and I found out about SIATA. I have to admit I have never heard of the marque and there is very little info available on the web regarding it. It is a 1951-53 Siata 300BC 750 which looks a hell of alot like the early Ferrari’s . All of the examples I found pictures of only have a three spoke steering wheel. I don’t know if this car was fitted with the 750 CC crossley tin engine.

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