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Old Jan 17, 2004 | 03:33 AM
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Old Jan 17, 2004 | 06:58 AM
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pretty good..where'd ya buy them and how were they to put in ?
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Old Jan 17, 2004 | 12:05 PM
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http://www3.mb.sympatico.ca/~bharlow/

Home made. I also made the scans myself. Very difficult, but worth it. After I put it in, the yellowish dimmers give it a yellow tint, so it goes real well with my yellow Camaro.
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Old Jan 17, 2004 | 08:26 PM
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Looks good, any plans to paint the needles? I would imaginge its hard to see the white needle on a white overlay? I painted mine red, turned out pretty good.
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Old Jan 18, 2004 | 02:55 AM
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Hey man it's rough how your other post was bashed into the ground! It got kinda classless at the end. I'm not much into the white face guages and think they'll be out of vogue soon, but it looks like you did a good job installing them. I'm thinking you could also either polish up the plexi in front of them to remove the scratches or replace it... and maybe paint the small screws white so they blend in(or whatever those small holes in the guage faces are, i have a bird myself so i'm not sure) . That'd make it look like a real clean job.
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Old Jan 18, 2004 | 05:16 AM
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Originally posted by JeremyNYR
I'm thinking you could also either polish up the plexi in front of them to remove the scratches.....
I took out the scratches in my plastic gauge cover by using Mother's metal wheel polish. I don't know why, but it worked great.
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Old Jan 18, 2004 | 01:34 PM
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So that wheel polish works to polish out the plexi eh? Where can you get it, and does anyone else have any other remedies to fix a scratched cover?

And nice gauges, I just got some overlays installed last night and I love them. I was thinking I might paint the black screws white as said above, but they don't seem too bad so I may not.

And if you wanna paint the needles, just get a red Sharpie, it works wonders.
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Old Jan 18, 2004 | 09:11 PM
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Yep, I used a red Sharpie and it worked great.
And before anyone says it (and someone will still mention it), I will say it now... the volts gauge has been fixed.


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Old Jan 18, 2004 | 11:16 PM
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--- MetalliCamaroRS --- sweet gages looks very nice :hail:. you are makeing me wonder if i should switch to wight face gages when i go to all Autometer. well you can compare his to my stock black gages.


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Old Jan 21, 2004 | 11:42 AM
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does anyone have them with a 115mph speedo?
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Old May 21, 2004 | 05:20 PM
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does anyone have them with a 115mph speedo?
i got one coming here in a few weeks off of ebay,

anyone else got one

brandon
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Old May 22, 2004 | 09:32 PM
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heres mine
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Old May 30, 2004 | 06:38 PM
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These are dark, but here are mine.
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Old May 30, 2004 | 06:50 PM
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man i dont know if its just me but i actually like the black gauges better like on F-Body Tim than on metallicamarors'.......ive got silver overlays and red needles but thats on the 91-92 instrument clusters...........the yellow needles looked like crap but since those are white i like um better
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