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I can use a tachometer in my collector-licensed truck if it was a Ford option, so I have only one choice, the Rotunda. I can't find one so I'm thinking of making a replica. Does anyone know what the Rotunda was made from, maybe Dixco or Sun? Anyone have a good photo of the face? TIA
Eric
Eric, Keep your eyes peeled on Ebay, they come up every now and again. It hasn't been too far back that it was a subject here. That way you could have the real thing.
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Eric, the tachs were fairly common in the big Ford trucks. Big F-600 dump trucks etc. They were gear driven. The ones that I have seen had a vacuum guage on one side and a tach on the other in non custom cab style dashes. To the best of my knowledge they were never in the pickups.
Hey Mike, do those say Rotunda on the face? I really only need that piece.
I won't buy anything on Ebay. I've heard too many stories, true or not. But thanks anyways for the advice.
Eric
The tach was not offered as an in-dash option on the pickups. The tachs are found every now and then, but the special distributor that drives it is a rarity. I have heard people using the distb. off a 427 or other large motor, but no matter what, it will not be a stock. Best bet? Get correct size tach, get real creative and have Rotunda etched onto the interior face plate. If you have the non-custom cab dash panel, maybe you could get something that would look like it was born there in one of the circular crease areas.