Anybody heard of a 71 cluster with a 6500 redline?Could this cluster come from the mysterious 71 LS6 or is it a 70 cluster and the buyer doesn't know what he has?


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Dean Ciampi
Autumn gold LS6 Chevelle
Team Chevelle Gold #52
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Sure looks like a 71-2 cluster to me, with the blue plastic housing and the white gauge lettering. Maybe it 'leaked' out of GM before the LS6 was cancelled...?

$650 asking price??
ACK!

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JARRET GRATHWOL
TEAM CHEVELLE MEMBER #573

1970 Chevelle SS 396- Documented Number Matching Original.
"Tuxedo Black" with white stripes and Ivory interiour with Factory Guage Package
Built NNM 396 inside- 427 Heads, 780 Holley, Roller-Tip Rockers, Edlebrock Performer RPM, Weiland Water Pump, Hooker Heders, DynoMax 3" exhuast.
Original M-21, Functional Cowl Induction, Original Sheet Metal
Number Matching 396/350 being built-up.
You can see my Chevelle SS here:
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I have personally seen some genuine '71 LS5 cars with the 6500 red-line tach. I believe that they produced some 6500 tachs in anticipation of the '71 LS6 option, and when that was cancelled, they just used them up in the LS5 cars.

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Dan Carr
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Team Chevelle Gold Member #11, ACES #701
Author of the GMC Sprint, El Camino, and '68-'72 SS Authentication pages.
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You can also have you normal 5500 or 5000 redline tach re-silkscreened at a number of places to achieve the same result. Could it be that the seller knows this as well?

These guages do in fact, exist. I have a '71 SS454/M22 ElCamino that I bought in 1982. It had been raced hard (Still had the weld on traction bar mounts on it). The original engine had been replaced, but the M22 and 3:31 posi rear are original and the numbers match. It is a non-A/C car as well. It has the white faced 6500 RPM tach. I agree with Dan (And have discussed it with him in the past) that it is probably just a "left over" tach from a discontinued option, but why GM would want the warranty nightmare associated with a 6500 RPM hydraulic liftered motor is beyond me. Anyway, those guages are most likely for real.