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I was in the neighborhood this morning checking on the wanted post I scribed out Saturday night, and I started wandering through the community, as I often do, when I stumbled upon “The Lost Cutlass.”      Your story truly gave me all the feels and contrived such an assimilation for me in regards to memories of my first car.  A ‘92 Nissan 240sx.  A 5 speed in the cleanest shade of white, cute flippy headlights, and a bright blue dancing Dead Bear sticker that I put on the driver’s side tiny rear triangle window so it would always be right behind me, anywhere I went.  I wish I realized back then what kind of car I was so fortunate to have been given.  I was grateful, don’t get me wrong, but  I was also young and I’ll just summarize by saying that car is now my standout  “You don’t appreciate what you have until it’s gone”  life-lesson.     It took a minute to round up the emotions you made me lose, but I wanted to stop by and encourage you to keep your pen to paper.  You have a fantastic talent for writing that readers appreciate.  From beginning to end, the way you depict and are able to convey senses made me feel like I was playing you in the film version.  I felt the mild defiance masked by harmless justification as you explained your convenient access to the DMV database.  I mean, maybe part of it is the Missouri factor, but I’m telling you- I felt the weather and smelled the sap!  This is an excellent story, and you have a phenomenal gift.   Thank you so much for sharing! 

Thanks, I'll update you if I can get mine to work properly. I assume a spare cluster is normally not necessary, since I think there are only 2 common issues with these clusters (I hope): soldering going bad and the laser trimmed resistor going slowly to infinity. The first can be solved by re-soldering, the latter will be an issue with all clusters of this age, the laser trimmed resistor was just a bad design. Bad soldering started causing issues on mine as well by the way, resulting in warning lights for oil pressure and temperature turning on when not supposed to.

I'm still learning things almost daily about these cars.  With me going this in depth for my car restorations, it has forced me to learn how these cars are put together and the proper and correct ways of doing repairs, etc.

Yup, like what Schurkey is saying, go off the VIN.  The door jamb tag is the build date and won't always coincide with the model year thru the VIN info.

Same here, having owned my ‘92 for 24 years now, there’s a lot I’ve learned!