Brad,
Oy, I meant to write "left on LHD", not RHD. I was not contesting but
comfirming your correction, but made the typo instead. I don't know why I'm
being so dislexic! Sorry.
Gerard
At 5:57 AM -0800 11/29/00, Brad Pace wrote:
> Gerard,
>
>Please show proof as I dispute your statement. None of the books in my
>substantial library show the speedo in any other position than that
>which has been previously stated. Look at where the notch is for the
>speedo reset. According to the factory parts book there is only one
>part # , for the fascia, to supply all the LHD Bugeyes made. Should
>your premise be true then there would, most likely, have been a
>different dash supplied for that application.
>
> Your turn, Brad
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Gerard Chateauvieux" <pixelsmith@gerardsgarage.com>
>To: "Brad Pace" <britclas@worldshare.net>; "Gerard Chateauvieux"
><pixelsmith@gerardsgarage.com>; "Robert L Marcum"
><rlmarcum@citcom.net>; "Spridgets" <Spridgets@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 11:41 PM
>Subject: Re: Speedometer
>
>
>Brad,
>
>Well this is apparently true in earlier cars. Later cars have the
>speedo on
>the right and I assumed they were always that way, especially since I
>had
>lots of trouble wih the cable with the speedo on the left on my
>Bugeye.
>Early handbooks do show the speedo on the left on a RHD car.
>
>Gerard
>
>
>
>At 11:23 AM -0800 11/28/00, Brad Pace wrote:
>> Sorry to contradict you Gerard but BMC publication #AKD 1627F ( MK
>>1 Sprite ) dated 1964 shows the speedo for the LHD car to be on the
>>L/S of the steering wheel and for the RHD car the speedo is to the
>R/S
>>of the steering wheel.
>>
>>Brad
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Gerard Chateauvieux" <pixelsmith@gerardsgarage.com>
>>To: "Robert L Marcum" <rlmarcum@citcom.net>; "Spridgets"
>><Spridgets@autox.team.net>
>>Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 10:49 AM
>>Subject: Re: Speedometer
>>
>>
>>Speedo is on the right in either LHD or RHD cases. If you have it on
>>the
>>left the cable doesn't line up right and is stressed such that it
>>won't
>>thread on correctly and may cause the canle to break... don't ask how
>>I
>>know. There is no angle drive required.
>>
>>Gerard
>>
>>At 10:36 AM -0500 11/28/00, Robert L Marcum wrote:
>>>Help please, the correct location for the speedometer in a LHD 59
>>Bugeye, left
>>>or right of steering wheel? Is there an angle drive which the cable
>>connects
>>>to?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Bob
>>
>>
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