As we go through and attempt to identify the clocks in my junkyard-derived collection, our last NTCC challenger came from a 1987 Saab 900 Turbo. Today’s clock was also made by VDO, but it didn’t come from a Saab. This call will be tough, because plenty of cars got timepieces very similar to this one over the years. Make your guess as to the year/make/model, then make the jump to see how geeked-out a car-trivia expert you are.
Sorry, I didn’t shoot the junkyard car that donated this clock, so I used a shot of a rescued-from-a-junkyard LeMons 944. I’ve seen this type of VDO clock in quite a few German cars from the late 1970s through early 1990s, but (as far as I know) only 944s got the clocks with yellow hands and numbers. Does it work? Of course!
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1980 VW Dasher? I vaguely remember one of those in my dad’s old Diesel.
My friends dad had an immaculate black daily driver 944 s2 that he bought new and took better care of than himself. It was a dark day when a suburban driver with a cellphone addiction totaled the car a couple years back.
Good to know! I’ve never been in a 944 somehow, so beyond mid-1980s and German I wasn’t sure. I quite like the look of this face, even if it wouldn’t match my gauges as well as the optional Volvo clock would. (From eBay: http://s827.photobucket.com/albums/zz194/COVOLVO/Accessories/?action=view¤t=IMG_4151.jpg )
Looks like wiring it might be a bit of a search-and-splice job, though. Hey, I’ve got plenty of leftover 240 wiring…
But that clock would go great together with an R-sport rally cluster. Slightly different font but color is a close match.
Oh, so true… perhaps someday this’ll be inevitable.
I would say it came from a 924 / 924S / early 944. It looks just like the clock in my ’83 944.
My ’87 924S has the same clock but the numbers are white.
Was the yellow color on the instruments an extra cost option from Porsche?
Actually, you had to pay extra if you wanted any gauge markings at all…
I keed, I keed…
Off the top of my head, I can’t think of any car other than the pre-‘85.5 944 that had all yellow gauge markings.
damn..man can you make this a little better contest???
Like maybe have readers make a guess b-4 you announce the answer