In the meantime... This other VDO celsius oil temp gauge showed up today, from Germany.

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The gauge is not quite what I'm looking for with a slight style variation of the incremental scale-range marks on the dial, while compared to the 917K VDO oil pressure gauge I have.

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Also NOS and with a 10.86 date-code.

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I had to buy it--just in case.

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