I’ve got a truly ridiculous car-parts-based project in the works, a project that requires several dozen functioning vintage car clocks. For about three years now, I’ve been hitting junkyards with an 8xAA battery pack, so I can hit car clocks with 12 volts and see if they’re worth buying. Most (>80% of analogs, 50% of digitals) fail, but enough have passed that I’ve got a couple of boxes full of functional European, Japanese, and Detroit car clocks. It will be decades a while before I get around to building The Great Car Clock Project, so I’m going to show off some of the better vehicular timepieces while testing the TTAC’s readership’s anorakian car knowledge. Today’s Mystery Clock won’t be a huge challenge, but it’s one of my favorites. Quickly: Year, make, model of the car that donated this Jeco digital?
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Looks like an early-’80s (or even late-’70s) Toyota Cressida to me…I’m going to say ’79. I seem to recall having seen one of these retrofitted into a late-70s Z-car at a show a couple of years ago.
You just bragged about finding this like, 2 weeks ago! It was from the big white Toyoda. Were you celebrating that moment right there and forgot?
1980 Toyota Cressida ….. same as the junkyard find a while back ……..
I like to think it’s always 4:20 in Murilee’s garage.
4:20 used to be quitting time in the government establishment I used to work at. (That was before they changed it to 4:18…honest!)
Datsun 280ZX or Toyota Cressida.
You could make a giant art piece out of it all, called Time to Drive or something like that.