Tech-Monitoring Mayhem

SPIN the clock back five or so decades ago. Back then when someone would show up on the street or in the drag strip staging lanes with a Sun tach clamped to the top of a steering column, it meant one thing: The car was serious. That evolved quickly though. It wasn’t long before that old Super Tach was superseded by a Jones-Motorola mechanical tach strapped to the dash top. That implied the car was even more serious. But the real significance here is the tach found in the car always seemed to tell the story. And that’s not the end either:

Times have changed and so have tachs and other gauges. Mechanical tachometers aren’t that common anymore. If you lived it, who could forget the maze you had to deal with when you installed a mechanical tachometer? Not only did you have to chop a honking hole in the firewall for