[T3] Happy Birthday Eggcrate!

Jim Adney jadney at vwtype3.org
Tue Sep 18 21:10:02 PDT 2012


On 18 Sep 2012 at 21:37, Keith Park wrote:

> BTW, the odd speedo scale I had I believe is because I have a MPH guts in it
> with an MPH dial but the dial glass is KPH, probably left when the switched
> out the guts upon entry into the US.

I doubt if anyone would have swapped just the guts. If a change from 
km/hr to mi/hr was mandated, they would have exchanged the whole 
speedo unit.

One other possibility is that the plastic dial got reversed (flipped 
inside out, left to right) by accident at some point, when someone 
took it apart. I did that without realizing it on my '69, and never 
noticed it until Dave finally blurted out that he couldn't tell how 
fast he was going. That was 3/4 of the way home from the first 
invasion. I was embarrased to have made that mistake, but glad that 
Dave discovered it. I fixed it as soon as we got home.

The speed markers are embossed on the INSIDE of the plastic face. If 
you can feel them on the front, the face is in there backwards. 

Put in backwards, it almost looks right, until someone points it out.

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Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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