Beautiful Instrument Panel

[wings&wheels]

...from an early Volvo P1800. This picture is from an article in Hemmings on the Volvo.

Readable, stylish, beautifully backlit, what more could you ask for? Now back to the perfectly functional but completely sterile iPad like panel on my DD.....

 

[ripcord]

Very classy. I always liked 60's Mustangs, but though the dashes were ugly. Kind of spoiled the cars for me.

 

[daves87rs]

I like it!!!

 

[B1974]

I had a 1977 Trans Am with a 4 speed when I was 19 years old. Coolest dashboard ever in my opinion. Shaker scoop adds to the nice view from the drivers seat.

 

[hemitom]

Check out the 62 Chrysler with the electroluminescent cluster.
my all time favourite

 

[JohnnyG]

What say, let's post some dash pics!

 

[ZedzAmg]

The 2021 Mercedes refresh blew my mind when we picked it up

 

[JeffKeryk]

Not for everyone, but pretty futuristic. This is an old shot; the screen was reformatted in an update last year I think.

 

[carviewsonic]

My current fave, Bentley Continental..

Thinking of trading the Honda in

 

[Trav]

Stunning!

 

[Trav]

...from an early Volvo P1800. This picture is from an article in Hemmings on the Volvo.

Readable, stylish, beautifully backlit, what more could you ask for? Now back to the perfectly functional but completely sterile iPad like panel on my DD.....

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Everything about the P1800 was beautiful.

 

[jkasch]

Definitely not beautiful, but the dash on the Cortina GT I drove in college was all business.

 

[RoadDukie]

Everything about the P1800 was beautiful.

When I was a young man, I wanted one SO bad! (Or an Elan.)

Wouldn't mind one now either...

 

[slacktide_bitog]

The 4th gen Prelude (92-96) has a cool dash

 

[walterjay]

 

[ripcord]

Wasn't the P1800 the model that set a Guinness world record for over 3 million miles driven?

 

[meep]

That prelude dash was beautiful, yet quirky with the mixed analog/luminescent. That whole car was on my want list… and now that I could afford an extra car, they are all too far gone.

the gen 4 Chrysler minivan dash, at night, always struck me, especially if you sat back and saw the roof controls too. Light levels and colors were perfectly balanced. They did a great job in my 2008 grand Cherokee too. In the day, it did not have the same appeal.

I liked the Volvo S60 gen1 dashes a lot. very simple, functional, and blended well with the spread of the headlamp beam.

i always enjoy a well-sorted wood dash with clean gauges, such as this tr6.

i gotta admit, the Lexus analog layout has always been attractive with the dark-set gauges, though I don’t find the functionality present with additional data like voltage, oil pressure, etc..

 

[benjy]

back in the day cars were beautiful as were many dashes, today not so much, just a lot of crappy unnecessary electronic JUNK IMO!!

 

[2EHA]

curves

 

[philipp10]

Not for everyone, but pretty futuristic. This is an old shot; the screen was reformatted in an update last year I think.
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Jeff now that is one area where I can't agree. Yeah like it's attractive to slap a tablet computer OVER the dash. Someday this will be looked at as absurd.