Posted on 04/11/2013 4:32:42 PM PDT by rawhide
Can anyone tell me what is the name of the car that this dash is a part of? What are those levers in front of the steering wheel used for? Air vents? Nice looking dash.
i uploaded the image from the start of the thread to my desktop
I then uploaded the image from my desktop into a google image search
but the google search found a number of images all very different than the dash and did not find the image on flicker that you cited
not that I am impressed by google anyway
Quite right. But according to my older brother if you pushed reverse while going down the road it would kick on your reverse lights. He claims big time fun in high school doing this when his buddies were following his '59 Fury.
You probably had to be there, I suppose.
You rolled up your tee shirt sleeves, with a pack of cigarettes rolled into one of them, and cruised as far as a buck's worth of gasoline (more than 3 gallons, back then, without worrying about MPG's, either) could take you.....those were the DAYS!
Winner, winner...chicken dinner!!
No kidding. Me and my next door buddy would wait until his old man passed out drunk, then roll his '58 Chevy Impala out the driveway and down the street before starting it.
Gas was only .35 cents a gallon back then, and we'd gas 'er up and cruise for hours. I was only fifteen, but I learned to drive in that thing.
Indeed it is - any idea what the levers were for?
He once hit a horse in the road, impaled the big Jet-like hood ornament in the horse's belly, and then just kept driving the car on to work....the horse didn't survive but the Oldsmobile did (it was a 1958, with big fins on the rear quarter panels that were the size of a billboard).
I once pulled the 1955 Buick into the barn, and hit the gas instead of the brake (I was 14), and drove through the back of the barn....the Buick was un-harmed, as it had bumpers that seemed to be about 1/4 inch thick!)
>>Under the speedometer there is a guage for each of the four levers with what looks like a gas guage in the middle.<<
Oil, Fuel, Temp, Gen
1954 Mercury Monterey Sun Valley.
Mercury got a styling and engineering redesign for 1952, such at 18% more window area.[2][4] Monterey became a separate series and Mercury's top model line, a convertible and four-door sedan were included in the new series lineup. The heater and vent controls where changed to levers and placed on a plane set perpendicular to the dash behind the steering wheel.[5] A station wagon bowed for 1953, the same year a Siren Red Monterey Convertible became Ford's forty-millionth car produced.[6] 1954 saw the introduction of the new 161 hp (120 kW) overhead valve Ford Y-block V8, as well as the bubble-top Monterey Sun Valley, which had a Plexiglas front half roof which was similar to that of the Ford Crestline Skyliner.[2]
Those big steering wheels were needed for leverage.
Most of us old timers had a spinner on the steering wheel so you could essentially steer with one hand and spin the steering wheel through its many turns when going around a corner.
We have a winner!!!
What do you mean old timers, LOL?
Have one on my International 274 diesel tractor, doesn't have power steering.
When it takes 2 1/2 turns end to end, the speed knob really helps on maneuvering.
Heh, I guess we all know who has the car lore prize tonight!!!!
>> “ATF in your veins.” <<
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And sometimes on my driveway.
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