[alfa] Re: Alfetta instrument placement

[TJCallahan@xxxxxxx]

In v9n814, the esteemed Mr. Herztman, one of several contributing to this 
topic, writes:

<snip>
>  The TZ1 certainly had a huge tach centered above the steering column. 
Don't have 
>  a good shot of the Stradale dash. The SZ, like most of the postwar cars, 
(and 
>  most post-Alfetta cars) had all instruments in a fairly tight cluster in 
front of the 
>  driver.
<snip>

While not strictly a separated placement, the 750/101 (Giulietta & Giulia) 
spiders have an instrument layout consisting of three circular instruments 
clustered in the shape of a triangle directly in front of the driver. 

The center gauge, at the top of the triangle and the most visible through the 
steering wheel, contains the tach and the oil pressure gauge. The gauge to 
the right, partially obstructed by the wheel, has the speedo, odo, and trip odo. 
The gauge to the left, also partially obstructed, has water temp, oil temp, 
and fuel. A variety of tell-tale lights are distributed between the two side 
instruments.

I see a certain similarity between this layout in Alfa's first successful 
post-war, mass-produced model line and the Alfetta GT.

Maybe because I have one of each and am less than impartial about them.

But I still see a similarity.

Tom
Seattle
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