A. The original French word for an automobile Dashboard found in older dictionaries may seem odd today.
B. In Model T and old cars English manuals a fender is called a mud guard; in French, auto manuals, a mud guard is <une garde-boue>.
C. Next, all European horse drawn buggies had a vertical panel placed on the front of buggies near one's feet to prevent horse manure from falling into one's buggy, so this panel, in French, was called <une garde-crotte>, or a nicer English translation, a manure guard.
D. Some of the first experimental European cars were made with buggies where the instruments were installed on the buggy's front vertical panel; hence, it became known in English as a Dash Board; but in French, the dash board, was referred to as <une garde-crotte>.
E. Seems if one ever travels to old French Indo-China, old French Equatorial Africa, Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Morroco, the old former Belgium Congo, Belgium, parts of Lebanon, France and other areas, these Model A owners would very probably select the above picture "A" for the correct Dashboard.
But, just a Semi-World-Wide experience and opinion if one wants to check it out while traveling.
