Last week, I got everyone's underpants all nice and restrictive with some hardcore engine porn. This time, I want to stay inside the car, but focus on the bits that we get most intimate with when driving: the dashboard. And there's some incredible ones here.
I liked the comments and the results from making the captions find the punctum of each photo, so let's try something similar here, but a bit different. I'm going to caption these with the first detail that gets my attention — not carefully considered, like the punctum, but what hits me in the gut first. And, as always, I really want to know what that was for you.
It'll be sort of like word-association. But with lots more pictures of dashboards. Let's go!
Red piping on that carpet.
That crescent-moon shape on the end of the needle. I'm surprised it wasn't that taped-on redline.
That lone red warning light.
Clear plexi steering wheel! Wow.
Rivets. Lots of rivets. This is a magnesium-bodied Bugatti, by the way — more on it soon.
The closeness of that wheel to the hood. And imagining bloody knuckles.
That oiler inspection window thing bolted to the dash.
The central steering wheel nut. This is a Model T-based special, and the Model T wheel always alarms me with its incredible sternum-piercing design.
I want to say the amazing Italian cop controls on the dash of this amazing ex-polizia Alfa wagon, but the first thing to grab my eye is that receipt in the ashtray.
The color scheme! Red and creamy goodness.
That amazing speedo unit on the right, with its robot/knight helm looking head.
Gauges outside the car!
Wood. So much wood.
I think that cluster of three gauges caught my eye first, but this is full of great vintage gear.
Triangular rear-view mirror.
Red. That's the only thing that floods my brain when I glance at this.
That clean, crisp instrument binnacle and hood. Weirdly, it feels like something out of an old hospital, but it's lovely.
The shifter catches my eye, and upon inspection you'll see it's a reverse-H pattern. Very odd.
That inverted-U shift handle, of course.
The TV! Of course. This was a diplomat's Rolls, and we can all be happy knowing almost any car you can buy today has a bigger, more colorful screen than this had.
The blue padding on the sides catches my eyes first. It looks sort of like a confusing seatback.
That incredible pie-chart tach.
Banjo steering wheel. This is from a Tatra T87.
The sheer number of gauges.
Green crackle-finish paint!
The detail on the steering shaft just behind the center of the wheel.
Alright! Tell us in the comments what catches your eyes first!