Chris- Craft Speedometer On eBay!
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Now that the Virtual Holiday party is over, thought a nice ebay story would be all you all can take! To be honest, I didn’t think Chris Craft made these. I mean, it makes sense, and I always thought maybe they did. But for what model? And this one looks like its in some sort of other than factory holder. Post war design. But here is the big question. What model boat would this fit in? Sure I am sure it was an option you could order on any model? Looks kinda small as well.
The back. Its kinda that simple
For a buy it now $390 price tag though. Unless you have a speedo on your Chris Craft Hull card? Is it worth it?
YOU CAN SEE THE EBAY LISTING HERE!!!!!
WHEW….I’m glad that said Factory Speedo…and NOT Speedo Factory! Not sure I could bear that first thing in the morning!
Ha! Wish I had thought of that. Gotta love a banana hammock
It is an easy enough thing to fake if you already have stencils. I had a discussion years ago with a gauge restorer about making a speedo to match my other CC gauges and he said it could be done and he had done it before.
Too many extra numbers on it to put on Panther. Now if you find one that stops at maybe 10 give me a call. By the way thanks for another party.
Interesting. Actually, the instrument has the pre-war cc logo on the gauge face. Maybe made by stewart-warner? Perhaps someone like Mark Clawson can provide further info on these?
Dang! It doesn’t feel right, but does. I am conflicted
Interesting. Looking at the back it looks like a standard aircraft instrument case somebody put a chrome bezel on. It could have started life as an aircraft air speed indicator then recalibrated for water density pitot pressure vs. air and the face re-labeled. I’ve seen plenty of private labeled speedos over the years, but never a CC.
I thought the back looked strange and the size is odd.
The speedometer is way easier to find than the pitot that is bottom mounted. Makers mark is an ai inside a large C
AEROMARINE SPEEDOMETER
Speedometer made especially for Chris – Craft
as listed in the 1958 CC Parts and Equiptment
Catalog
Holy crap, this just keeps getting more interesting
Also listed in the 1953 Parts and Equipment
Catalog price sheet with a retail price of $ 33.75
Here it is.
Pitot tube as, supplied in kit was copper.
For $34 I’ll take a few of them!
good detective work by all…neat story.
John in Va
While definitely a very cool accessory, you can tell I’m going fast enough by the smile on my face. For that, I can save $390 plus another thru-hull fitting to worry about.
I’ve restored a handful of these over the years – always post war even though the script was pre-war. The last one I did was in a 1954 Riviera. Challenging to repair when they are broken. Impossible to replicate at that 45 MPH full sweep. Nice work Joe Morrison and Jim Staib!