Name That Car Clock: Round Analog

by Murilee Martin

Published: March 6th, 2012

We saw a Porsche 944 clock in yesterday’s Name That Car Clock challenge, and today we’re going to dig even deeper into my big collection of automobile timepieces for a really tough one. I love the look of this clock so much that I bought it knowing it didn’t work (I bring a 12-volt battery pack to the junkyard when I’m hunting clocks). You decide what year/make/model vehicle gave me this clock, then make the jump to see if your guess was correct.

1965 Oldsmobile Jetstar 88

GM clocks of the 1960s used a solenoid-wound spring mechanism that probably didn’t last three years in most cars, but the guts are so simple that I should be able to fix it… someday. Did you see the GM-ness of this clock?

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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, Autoblog, Hagerty, The Truth About Cars and Capital One.

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65corvair on Mar 06, 2012

I bought a clock for my Corvair to fill in the big empty hole in the center of the dash. I can't remember what I paid, but it was a lot, and then spent even more to get it quartz converted. What do you useally pay for a clock?

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Acuraandy on Mar 06, 2012

Looks like a mid-70's New Yorker, Imperial, or Volare?

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