kph (metric)
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Dartnut
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It's probably out of a Mexican built car or remotely a car destined for sale in Europe.
Probably Mexican built though.
Probably Mexican built though.
Thanks Dartnut Metric came here in 1977.
Did Mexico have metric way back then?(67)
I think you are right though.
Darryl
340john
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My '71 six barrell Cuda had a metric speedo. It also had the owners manual and original showroom brocures printed in french.
Vehicles destined for countries that used metrics got KPH speedometers. Ulf found me a 65 Dart KPH speedo and several years ago I got one from a 65 Valiant from Finland. That one is going in my 65 Barracuda since it's eventually going to Holland where my oldest son lives.
Mopar to ya
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That's freakin' awesome! I had an imported motorcycle with a KPH speedo. I learned to do the math in my head so I knew how fast I was going. I blew down the road past my wife once. I told her I was doing 180. She freaked out, so I told her it was kilometers. Thank God she couldn't do the math. I can see you flying down the road at 200. I would want a pic of that!
Very cool!
That's awesome. I would use one of those too if I had it.
Since you can get overlay stickers for speedo clusters, why not get one that is metric? The actual mechanism for the speedo is likely the same it just has different line spacing and numbers. Something like this only in metric
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1965-Plymou...pt=Motors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&vxp=mtr
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1965-Plymou...pt=Motors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&vxp=mtr
Hemiorangeswinger
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There is an older guy that lives near my parents that has a 1970 Swinger 340 white with a black bumble bee stripe, black interior, buckets and console and I tried buying the car from him since it was just rusting away... Anyways it had this exact Km/h dash and I knew it was really strange and I've never seen one before (I dont even think he knows what he has) I never did get to see the fender tag, but it did look original to the car!
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