Gentlemen: How do you look when you're hot?

Lemme get this straight....you want to know what your 50-ish year old, never calibrated even when new, temperature gauge should read?

Actually, I've found that the factory gauges are usually very, very close on cars that are in fair condition. They're temperature compensated by design, and Chrysler was a company of engineers back then. Some factory gauges actually have provisions to calibrate them, if you disassemble the gauge that is.