I suggested Wayne look at South Africa for KPH speedos, because down here in
NZ we have a '59 Dodge Custom Royal that has a 220KPH speedo, this car came
into NZ in 1960 from South Africa. Verified by the ownership and import
papers. Maybe they were preparing themselves for the conversion to metric
ahead of time!
Owen
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Sealey <mopar2ya@YAHOO.COM>
To: <L-FORWARDLOOK@LISTS.PSU.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 3:25 AM
Subject: Re: [FWDLK] Kilometers per hour speedos
> --- Wayne Graefen <WGraefen@OMNIGLOBAL.NET> wrote:
>
> > Anyone on this list in South Africa??? Or other
> > countries having KPH speedometers.
>
> South Africa is no help on two counts:
>
> (1) They still used mile speedos until about '70 (if
> Brendan Milne is reading this he could probably come
> up with the exact year);
>
> (2) The RHD cars appear to have used just one
> dashboard for all makes. From what I have seen, it
> appears that all '57-'59s used a reversed '57-'58
> Dodge dash, while the one pic I've seen of a RHD '60
> DeSoto looked like it used the Plymouth instrumment
> cluster.
>
> > I would like to find kilometers per hour speedos for
> > my '57 and '60 Chryslers if possible.
>
> There used to be a '57 Windsor in San Francisco with
> Colombian plates. I'm assuming from the "250" max
> reading on the speedo that all metric '57 Chryslers
> used the 300-spec speedo (120 mph = about 200 kph,
> while 150 mph = about 250 kph)...
>
> Good luck, Wayne, it sounds like a worthy goal!
>
> (The US supposedly adopted the metric system in the
> 1870s, but you can't prove it by some of our
> measurements... ...President Gerald Ford called for
> real adoption of the metric system as he was leaving
> office in 1977, but with the exception of soft drink
> bottles it doesn't seem to have taken hold...)
>
> =====
> Mike Sealey, San Francisco CA
> '57 Plymouth Sport Suburban
> '64 Chrysler 300-K 2dr Hardtop
>
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