Gauge letters ivory-pure white in 72

[dirk07]

always thought that the changed from ivory to pure white letters of the gauges with stamping dates from 1/71 on.

Now I found a pressure/temp gauge 1/71 and a tank/oil level gauge 4/71 with ivory letters.

Further details on the change from ivory to pure white?

[tom1394racing]

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[bruver]

I always thought it was ivory for 2.2 and pure white for 2.4 but experts will chime in...

Cheers

Bruno

[dirk07]

No doubt about the change from MY71 to MY72.

Just the stamping question, when pure white show up first.

[bruver]

No doubt about the change from MY71 to MY72.

Just the stamping question, when pure white show up first.

Millesime are changing in August so my guess is pure white from 08/71 and onward...

[dirk07]

welcome to date stamp madness

7/71 Tach with white letters, 7/71 pressure gauge with a mix of white and ivory

http://www.early911sregistry.org/for...ferrerid=29735

btw I bought the tach several montha ago and try to find matching gauges for my viperngreen, which had a mixture of gauges of three decades 72-70-79-68-99

[Zedone]

Well, here's a marker in time. Late model year 1971 911, build date July 71, ivory gauges.

[dirk07]

Zed,

good start. If you have pictures of the backside of the gauges, that would help.

[uai]

I think that this might be a VDO topic and not a Porsche Topic. This colorchange occured on all VDO clusters (BMW, Mercedes) and VDO aftermarket items.

[dirk07]

Bump with a comparison of a 5/71 (first+left, untouched) and a 2/71 (second+right, restored) gauge

the 2/71on the right was refurbished, but the scale wasn't touched. it shows ivory letters, while the symbols are not that fine drawn like the 5/71 gauge, which has white letters on the front and yellowed letters on the scale
specially the handbrake symbol and the generator symbol are much finer drawn on the white letters one.