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Do you know when your car was converted? only 61-3 should have the red needles anyway. There may be clues IN the speedo... often when they were converted there were tags left in them to authenticate the mileage. Keith > Hi Volks, > > The speedo in my original German purchased/US > converted '65 Notch S is like Greg's (10-30-50-70-100 > w/red needle). Keith might be right about the fitting > of the odd available speedo when our cars were > converted to US specs. I'll check the date code when > I can get a little dirty, it's still in the car. > > Have a Happy and safe Thankgiving! > > Cheers, > > John La Francois > Blauvelt, NY > '65 Notch S (Nubb) Awaiting RUSToration > '67 Beetle (Bubb) Currently under RUSToration, by > owner > '98 Jetta GL (Wolfgang) Wife's Daily Driver > > --- Keith Park <topnotch@nycap.rr.com> wrote: > > > Could > > there have been one original type and the other a > > replacement for the cars > > that got converted when entering the US with KPH > > speedo's??? > > > > YA KNOW... > > > > Ill bet thats it!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > > > > At 8:11 PM -0500 11/26/02, Keith Park wrote: > > > >> I looked at a... not sure of the date, but a > > red-needle 100mph.... > > > >> this morning, and it has 10 - 30 - 50 - 70 - > > 100. I'm pretty darn > > sure > > > >> that my '69 is the same. > > > > > > > >This is a late (66-71) speedo with the needle > > painted red > > > > > > > I just looked -- the physically stamped date, as > > well as the > > > ink-stamped date, both say 9/63...! > > > > > > -Greg > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > ------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> > For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/ > ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/