Choke dash label question

[shadwolf]

Hi everyone,

I'm relatively new around here, and have searched past posts for the answer to this question but couldn't find where it had been asked before...

I see that on those dashes with manual chokes there seems to be two different ways they're labelled on the dash - one with it apparently part of the dash panel as seen in the top most pic in this post:

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=200203

and one where the label for the choke is on a plastic add-on tab, seen in the second picture in that post.

Why the difference between the two? Is it year-model difference? Does anyone make reproductions - or know where to find - the plastic add-on tab?

Thanks

[Steve Hafner]

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I put a " wanted choke plate " ad in the WTB ( wanted to buy ) area of this website and bought the one pictured below for $10 a few months ago.

I'm not sure why some are " added on " - it might be since the 67 - 68's have the wiper and light switches both on the left of the dash, they put the choke in the upper right. I think only the base engines had a manual choke. The 67 - 68 trucks with an automatic choke had a choke delete plate on the upper right corner of the dash, like in the second picture, below. I've never heard of anyone making a reproduction of the choke plate.

Someone else might know more about it.

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[hugger6933]

Welcome to you from East AR. My 68 GMC doesn't look like either of your pics, it had an add on button looking thing. I will try to look at my 68 parts truck tomorrow to see what it is like. Jim

[GuyO]

I wish I could find a plate only that says "wiper". I bought wiper delays from Roger (twouvakind) and prefer to have the reostat dash mounted so I could have both, 1) the hi/lo/off and 2) the delay. I have a Burban with rear air and it came with a Rear Ac plate on the left side of the cluster.

[shadwolf]

Thanks for the info you guys. Steve, I found your ad in the WTB section and messaged too_much_stuff, he still had one available. I appreciate the info and the pointer

hugger, hello from central Ar. Nice to see someone from close by on the site.

GuyO, I didn't know they made a plate like that. The choke one seems fairly common - just not reproduced - the throttle plate I'd imagine would be less so, and now I find out there's a rear AC plate, which I'm sure is really uncommon. I wonder if there are any other dash plates?

[too much stuff]

Originally Posted by shadwolf

Thanks for the info you guys. Steve, I found your ad in the WTB section and messaged too_much_stuff, he still had one available. I appreciate the info and the pointer

hugger, hello from central Ar. Nice to see someone from close by on the site.

GuyO, I didn't know they made a plate like that. The choke one seems fairly common - just not reproduced - the throttle plate I'd imagine would be less so, and now I find out there's a rear AC plate, which I'm sure is really uncommon. I wonder if there are any other dash plates?

The ones i have saved over the years are... (some are from big trucks)
Choke
throttle
Diff lock
Fuel stop

[GuyO]

I didn't realize there were so many different types of them! I had only seen manual choke and rear AC. That said, you gave me an idea. I think I will make one for the wiper delay from an old broken cluster I have and place it under the main wiper switch on the right side! I can make more from other clusters I know of. So the Burban will have 4 knobs, the Blazer and GMC SWB will have three knobs (except on the right side both say "wiper" above the knobs)