Busiest Dashboard Ever (Feb, 1933)
Fifty Instruments Help Run This Car
Collecting instruments to place on his automobile is the unusual hobby of Lawrence Grayson, of Los Angeles, Calif. Forty-one, to date, grace his car’s driving compartment, with nine more outside. Besides regulation motor instruments they include such novelties as a barometer for foretelling the weather, an altimeter to show Grayson his elevation, an airspeed indicator, a periscope, a compass, and a device that shocks a would-be car thief by releasing an electric charge of 32.000 volts.
All this is now on his great-grandson’s cell phone, except for the neat 32,000v theft deterrent but that will be in the iPhone, don’t worry.
Comment by Stannous — April 17, 2007 @ 5:51 pm
“Does it come in black?”
Good Lord, the guy’s last name is “Grayson” too. Bet his kid was named “Dick”…
Comment by Kryten007 — April 18, 2007 @ 3:58 pm
Because piloting a car in the 1930s wasn’t enough of a pain!
It looks like about a 1932 Auburn.
They don’t mention the accessory headlights with the skinny slots in them
Comment by Neil Russell — November 12, 2007 @ 6:56 am