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Originally Posted by TonyCy
Question - one of my 1971 164’s has a centre console with a strange black VDO unit fitted. It has an earth feed and light, it’s bigger than a clock but actually has nil inside except black. It’s not been opened hence I know nil has been removed but any ideas what it is or it’s supposed to do? Picture here - it’s filthy yes as it’s how I found the car but in process of sorting out now....
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Enlarging the image it looks like someone has played what is quite a neat trick of applying some black window tint film over it then using a brighter bulb to illuminate the clock so it's not noticeable at first until the bulb is on (usually with ignition so may have a blown bulb) at which point the tint film becomes more or less transparent, revealing the time.
To explain that with a couple of pics :
Is it a mirror?
Nope, it's a clock!
That's done with silver-reflective window tint film. I also have some guages i bought from Chinabay that appear black until powered up, again just black window tint film.
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I might be wrong but when i enlarged the pic of your mystery item, i'm fairly sure i made out the shadow of a pair of hands at the "5 to 4" or "20 past 11" positions - could have been shadows or something though so don't quote me on that!