Motor minder

[milesmonte]

Hello, all what is a MOTOR MINDER GAUGE?

Where was it mounted in our car's?

Does anyone on our forum have one?

Thank's for any information.

Sincerly Miles

[ragz442]

It's just another name for a vacuum gauge. More/less a gadget to keep your foot out of the throttle and save gas. It was in the right gauge pod, if you had it, you didn't have the other [more important...IMO] gauges.

I do believe it's kinda rare though, you do see them pop up on ebay.

[58thndy]

My 74 H/O also has the knee knocker Motor Minder, and the 76 Ninety Eight has the factory gage- "Fuel Economy" it says. On a 5200 lb 455 equipped boat. Yah right.

[zodiacblue442]

I had one of the fuel economy gauges that I pulled out of a 76 Cutlass in a junk yard years ago. I had never seen one in person. It is a rare option. I put it on ebay and it sold for a spectacular $11 :p Moral of the story is even though the fueld economy gauges are very rare, people like the rallye gauges alot more! I tend to agree!

[58thndy]

Dang- reminds me of a gage package I pulled out of a full-size 1975 Pontiac years ago, thinking it might be an easy and profitable sale. It had the vacuum gage in addition to oil, gas, temp and volts.

I know if I had owned a 71-76 FS Pontiac, I'd have been all over something like that, but it took three years to sell it and barely got my money back on it.

Then a ratty set of Firebird gages got snapped up quick for good money, even with only a 6-grand tach. I guess they worked, nobody called back to complain, and I told the buyer up front they had not been tested.

Yup. Never know what people are really looking for.

[milesmonte]

jon the one you are talking about is the one I am looking for.
I believe it mounted below the steering column lap vent in the 73-75 HURST OLDS cars.

Jon could post a picture or two of yours.

Thank's Miles

[7hurst4]

Motor Minder... Better picture in my albums.

[Firethorne77]

You all aren't joking... " Knee Knocker!"

That would be in the way, but its cool rare option... no wonder they didnt survive, they all got ripped out or kicked off!

[yogi442]

weren't these essentially the same concept as the original 442 vacuum economy tachs used in the mid 1960's. I have a tach that lets you know when you are obviously too much into the pedal. I thought these were basically the same idea.

[7hurst4]

Jon, Stewart Warner must have used two different types of face plates for the Motor Minder, here is a better picture. Mine does not look like the one in the Hurst supplement book, I think mine is the later version. It was on the car when my grandfather brought it new...

[58thndy]

Yes. 442 could have either a vacuum gage or tachometer 64-67. Buick and Pontiac also utilized them in mid and full size cars, though Chevrolet tended to stick with a tach. I've seen only a few Impala SS with vacuum gage and don't remember ever seeing a Chevelle with one.

I guess it could be a handy instrument, though it was really kinda gadgety. But gadgety sold cars.

[58thndy]

7hurst4, you may be right. Mine is so faded I can't really tell much about it anymore, but it appears to have the version with the bars instead of "economy/deceleration" zones.

[sumrof75]

Does that esc have any parameters you need to set up or is everything pre-set? Do you have a different esc to try with that motor? Your battery is charged for sure? You know about the esc arming sequence?

Post foul! 10 yard penalty.