from the company known for making taxis in France in the 1910-1930's... this terrific race car came, the 1924 Chenard and Walker roadster

 I love to find cool new gauges, and these are unlike any I've seen before

 A barometer, or an altimeter? To adjust the carbs for rich or lean?

 The speedo, tach, and gas gauges are incredible...

 Litres d' Essence wow, what a great language!

1923 Avoin Voisin factory research race car, the C6 Laboratoire, simply a most amazing innovative and obscure try at a racecar from airplane engineers

 Quite odd looking, maybe the strangest I can recall ever seeing

 Why it has a prop on the nose, I'd only guess that it's for airspeed. Boardtrackfan commented that he thinks its for a water pump

 and I was astonished to see it has the actual "Windscreen" that I've only heard of but never seen before

Click on the above gauges and get a good look at the full size... those are pretty unusual

 and a square-ish steering wheel... boardtrackfan reminded me that this isn't so uncommon, it's so the driver has a better view when driving straight, and more legroom

  here is the big indication of the aeroplane style engineering they brought to their race car... cable brakes. But not connected to the brake pedal, this is independant front and back brakes for a racing advantage

My very cool sister scored these sweet gauges and gave them to me for Christmas!

  The temp gauge isn't missing, it's just dismounted for shipping to me, and I didn't put it back into the cluster for this photo, here is a similar set ina  30's Dodge hot rod at the Primer Nats http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/05/cool-instrument-gauges-in-old-1930s.html

Anyone know what vehicles they came from? I'm going to guess that the Chrysler gauges are from the 30's or 40's, but I don't recall ever seeing the bottom set.. anyone know what they are from? Such a low reading on the tach makes me think it was to a flathead, or a diesel.

1925 Auto Union Wanderer W25 Roadster from the Schlumpf collection at the Mullin Museum

Allow me to feel happy about photographing old german gauges... these are the first I can remember seeing or photographing

1927 Renault 40cv tourer with real vintage Louis Vitton luggage that has seen some travel miles and exotic destinations

 using these extra seats would probably be uncomfortable and stop any chance of any backseat pssengers having legroom

Tere's post of this Renault http://justacargal.blogspot.com/search/label/Renault%20Tourer