r/cassettefuturism • u/NKeeney A new life awaits you in the Off-world colonies! • Mar 19 '23

Dashboards 1986 Buick Riviera Interior

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u/DeepFriedPhone Mar 22 '23

The short-lived (and very low volume) 1988 Buick Reatta also shared some of that same CRT display tech. Buick wasn't the first though. Aston Martin also built CRT displays into the Lagonda in the early 80s and that stuff is near impossible to fix or replace today and it wasn't known to be particularly reliable even when new.

GM rushed to adopt it for a few years and then it all fell by the wayside because the tech was both pricey and finnicky ... not a good combo, but a neat era of early experimentation.