Name That Car Clock: 2″ VDO Analog With Yellow Numbers

by Murilee Martin

Published: March 5th, 2012

name that car clock 2 vdo analog with yellow numbers

As we go through and attempt to identify the clocks in my junkyard-derived collection, our last NTCC challenger came from a 1987 Saab 900 Turbo. Today’s clock was also made by VDO, but it didn’t come from a Saab. This call will be tough, because plenty of cars got timepieces very similar to this one over the years. Make your guess as to the year/make/model, then make the jump to see how geeked-out a car-trivia expert you are.

1985 Porsche 944

Sorry, I didn’t shoot the junkyard car that donated this clock, so I used a shot of a rescued-from-a-junkyard LeMons 944. I’ve seen this type of VDO clock in quite a few German cars from the late 1970s through early 1990s, but (as far as I know) only 944s got the clocks with yellow hands and numbers. Does it work? Of course!

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Murilee Martin

Murilee Martin is the pen name of Phil Greden, a writer who has lived in Minnesota, California, Georgia and (now) Colorado. He has toiled at copywriting, technical writing, junkmail writing, fiction writing and now automotive writing. He has owned many terrible vehicles and some good ones. He spends a great deal of time in self-service junkyards. These days, he writes for publications including Autoweek, Hagerty and The Truth About Cars.

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Lokki on Mar 05, 2012

Was the yellow color on the instruments an extra cost option from Porsche?

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- TKewley on Mar 06, 2012
  
  Actually, you had to pay extra if you wanted any gauge markings at all... I keed, I keed... Off the top of my head, I can't think of any car other than the pre-'85.5 944 that had all yellow gauge markings.
  
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Oldyak on Mar 06, 2012

damn..man can you make this a little better contest??? Like maybe have readers make a guess b-4 you announce the answer

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