[GH85Carrera]

My El Camino is a SS model, but it came with just idiot lights. The only gauges were the speedometer, and the fuel level.

I found a replacement gauge cluster from a local salvage yard. They destroyed the circuit board somehow when they removed the cluster. I swapped over everything, and had to go the the online forums to get the wiring diagram. I built my own wire harness and it has worked fine for years.

One thing about 80s cars is the dash was poorly lighted. "While I was in the there" I painted the back for the blue plastic gauge holder white to reflect more light, and found some brighter bulbs. The new cluster came with a speedometer that had a trip odometer. I had sent it out to a speedo shop to get rid of all the stupid giant 55 in red, and make it a 115 MPH speedo, not top out at 85, and to set it to the approximate mileage the Elky had.

The dash is much brighter, and it is nice to have a tach, temp, oil pressure gauge in addition to the rebuilt speedo with no reference to the insane 55 MPH limit back then.

It was a real effort, but after many miles and years it all works great. A big improvement.