Thanks for the comments guys.
I seem to be re living my teenage years by adding mods to my car.
When I was in my 20's (a couple of years ago
) I had a Vanden Plas 1100 just the same as my current 1300 but this one was customised quite a bit.
I removed the entire wood veneer dash and fitted a custom dash with twin speedo & rev counter then two banks of 4 Smiths guages, yes 8 in total and they all worked. Fuel,water temp, oil temp, oil pressure, clock, vacuum, ampmeter, and battery condition.
It looked quite cool at the time for a boy racer
Even then I remember having a list of what I had done and what I wanted to do with the car. Ended up putting it on its roof at 11.30pm on Hogmanay and finished up with my first Rover, a 2000TC
JYJ