Pre 80s UK cars with large half-moon speedometers?
Pre 80s UK cars with large half-moon speedometers?
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406dogvan

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5,329 posts

286 months

Yesterday (22:26)
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When I was a kid, my Dad built me a steering wheel/gear shifter setup - I wore-it-out over the following years...

He sourced bits from a local scrapyard (North East England) - this would be mid 70s - and the centrepiece was a dashboard binnacle.

It contained a half-moon speedometer (single needle anchored bottom middle) and an odometer and not much else

The casing was rounded at the top and that was clearly the 'top of the dash' so I suspect tea shelfery was involved perhaps?

To this day I've never found-out what it came out of - someone told me is was a Morris but I've never matched-it-up to one I've seen and Google has no clues

Obviously no pictures - I'm old enough to pre-date photography!!

Any ideas - I guess it COULD be American but whatever it was, it was scrapped in the mid-70s so...

p.s. not a P6 dash - too 'short' in height and that's a moving needle rather than a sweeping one IIRC?

FarmerJim

735 posts

180 months

Yesterday (22:30)
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Ford Consul Mk 2


DavePanda

6,781 posts

255 months

Yesterday (22:32)
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Or Mk1 Zephyr


DoctorX

7,930 posts

188 months

Yesterday (22:51)
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Reliant Regal?

mikef

6,066 posts

272 months

Yesterday (23:02)
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Could have sourced it from a motorcycle? A number of British bikes had Smiths D-shaped speedos

bristolracer

5,865 posts

170 months

Austin A40?