Smith's 8000 rpm tacho

[lowdrag]

Right, living in France I often meet people looking for spare parts. In this case it is for a Lola T70 1966 and here in France they don't seem to be able to find the above, hence this post.

The owner has had it for years and it has been much raced but sadly he has had a stroke and can no longer race but is restoring the car to an incredible standard for his personal pleasure. So while he has three 12,000 rpm tachos in stock, we need a Smiths 8,000 for correctness.

Well, they aren't difficult to find, but mostly electric moderns and not the magnetic type like an E-type for example. We need the latter please. Anyone got any ideas?

[lowdrag]

Thanks at least for replying. I have a photo of another with 12,000 rpm but the general idea is black with white numerals , about 100 mm diameter, and most importantly magnetic, not chronometric or electric like the modern repros. One thing I have never seen is four 58mm Webers on a small block Chevy engine! Cost about 50,000 dollars I was told! Am on the tablet so will post photos tomorrow.

Edited by lowdrag on Monday 9th January 21:01