At least in a Duesenberg SJ, it had a purpose -- you could point out to
passengers how you were at, say, 6000 feet, and still had plenty of power
due to the supercharger...
I guess in the B it would be your excuse for not being able to pass that
truck on the grade...
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on 12/5/03 12:21 PM, Bob Howard at mgbob@juno.com wrote:
> An altimiter seems to be an instrument in search of a purpose to me
> also, yet they were fitted to Duesenbergs. Come to think of it, there was
> a modicum of ostentation included with their Bentley-like engineering.
> Bob
>
> . He even kept the instructions
>> for the "MG Mitten" car cover and the altimeter (!) he installed
>> in 1965, which is still installed--perhaps as useless a gauge as
>> I've ever run across in a car.
>>
>> Roger Los
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