God DAMN thats fucking pretty
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!
Thats so fucking cool! I’d love to see pics if and when you get it restored!
Funny that they use green LEDs because blue and white hadn’t been invented yet.
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.
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.
If I remember correctly Volkswagen had this in the 2000 era as well
They did. It wasn’t LED, but I thought it looked great; easy on the eyes and easy to read at night.
Isn’t that VFD?
Yeah I suppose so. I just assumed they were backlit by LEDs. But you learn something new every day!
…green was so much easier on the eyes; i miss it…
Anyone else randomly hearing citypop and synthwave for some reason?
Link us to your favs?
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…
Damn why can’t we have this back?
Gauges for battery voltage and water and oil temp, nice.
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.
You have any pic of that beauty.
Man, I wish! This was like…1998 when I got it and we didn’t take nearly as many photos
Pipboy Nissan
amazing
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.
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
Super green!
