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    22 hours ago

    Funny that they use green LEDs because blue and white hadn’t been invented yet.

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      19 hours ago

      My eyes are screaming at me at the thought of a blue LED dashboard. My eyes struggle so hard with blue LED lights. I’ve wound up taping over every single blue LED due to this.

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        Funnily enough the only example I know of of a blue lit dash was also Nissan circa 1990 or so in their Maximas. Unsure if they were doing other models blue around that time and it was an analog dash with blue back-lighting.

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            They did. It wasn’t LED, but I thought it looked great; easy on the eyes and easy to read at night.

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    21 hours ago

    Man… my first car was a Beretta GT and I thought the digital dash was the coolest thing ever. It scrambled one day and was pretty amazing to watch freak out.

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      18 hours ago

      The 1984 50th Anniversary model (where this dash made its debut) was an incredible looking car with some tech way ahead of its time.

      Edit: The later model 280ZXs, 1983 models for sure and maybe some 1982, also could be had with digital dashes but they were a little different. I’ve actually got one in my garage right now that I’ll eventually get around to restoring with a transplanted digital dash. Even more rare, it has a dashboard with no cracks!

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    With an all-digital display cluster in a conventional car, which is effectively just an LED screen, it’s possible to hack something like this in. Getting a modern center console to cooperate would take some elbow-grease, but is also probably doable.

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      LEDs just can’t recreate the glow of Electroluminescent displays…

      Edit: although I guess the are digital.

      I miss electroluminescence though… It never bothered me the way LED does

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    1 day ago

    Hehe my 85 Bluebird has a cut down version of this. Vacuum florescent gauges for fuel, oil pressure, voltage and temperature.

    Have to wiggle the dash board to get them to come on sometimes. Old age…