Hood Tachs

[camarojoe]

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David,
My original hood tach has the clear plastic insides that you show.The black plastic insides look like a newer tach.Couldn't they both be Dixico made at different times?Earl

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Thats exactly what they are Earl.

[dforsyth]

I do not own the "ebay" tach but another one.
If someone would like to send me a focused pic of the Duece Tach I would appreciate it.
And the article is far from written unless you are including all makes of cars and the years and part numbers for those tachs.
I also am researching the uses for Mopar and Ford.
If this is an early Dixco Tach that is great as it will prove a theory of mine but still does not help me unless I have proof.
The proof being when they changed the style and part numbers on paper.
As you can see it is not as simple as someone saying it is correct. It is only correct if found in documentation.
Thanks
And I am submitting this article to Automobile with several other articles.

[Supercar_Kid]

Dave, you might want to start by reading this thread on your tach that was started here awhile back. I describe what I know about the Dixco units pretty well, and rather than retype it all it may be easier to gain some knowledge from the previous thread. Please take no offense if you're the person who shelled out the $875 for the unit, we're sort of close knit around here and alot of us (including myself) thought there was some shenanigans being pulled by the seller. We tend to bring these kinds of things out into the open here on the sYc forum to prevent future misunderstandings. As for an authentic Deuce tach, you'll see one here. Deuce Tach I apologize for the poor image quality, but it's the best I could get as it's actually a still created from a digital video clip I have of it functioning on the car. You'll note the logo is a simple white silkscreen on the black plastic of the tach face. I assume it was created in the very same process as the HT/x logos Dixco used on their own over the counter units. Most likely a "tampo" stamp as the Hot Wheels guys refer to it as. As to what your tach is, I can't say for sure, as I haven't had any original Dixco units apart. I know that the face looks to be a Dixco HT/x over the counter unit, but J.C. Whitney also used to sell a similar tach well up into the 80's and perhaps even the early 90's, that had the same body as the Dixco unit but with a multi colored RPM range, I belive it had red, yellow, and green in it's sweep stripe, but I won't swear to it. Perhaps your tach is the Whitney unit with a Dixco face swapped on, but I assure you the face is not an original Yenko installed unit. It looks to be an amateurish recreation of some sort, the origin of which I can only speculate, but it looks awfully "digital" to me to have been created in the 60's or 70's. My guess is it's an ink jet print out on a piece of paper, trimmed out and glued to the plain black face, which had been wiped clean of it's HT/x silkscreen. these silkscreens are quite delicate, and rub off rather easily. You'll note part of the top of the crest is missing in the attached Deuce tach pic. If you wanted this silkscreen gone, all it would take is a little lacquer thinner. I don't claim to be any sort of self proclaimed expert, and I'm not saying what I've posted here is the end all be all of hood mounted tachometer information, but what I've said here I believe to be 100% accurate and you can take what you will from it. Perhaps my brother "Camarojoe" can chime in with further info, as I know he has several NOS in the box Dixco HT/x tachs and a whole collection of original Dixco HT/x advertisements, including as a press kit that was intended only to be received by speed shops and authorized Dixco retailers. In it there are some Dixco hood mounted units I'm sure many of you would be surprised to see, but he's kind of a stickler about reproducing that stuff here on the internet for all the world to see, where people like the seller of the said "ultra bogus" tach would have a field day making quick $$$ off of the knowledge he'd like to share with all you honest folk here on the sYc. I hope I've been helpful Dave, welcome to the site.