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Hi Volks, Or, the 3/65 speedo was installed in a 3/65, (or a manufacture date close to it), car at a later date as the car was readied for US delivery. My '65 Notch has the 10-30-50-70-100, (I really need to check for a date on the case). And I know that like Scott's car, (mine and Scott's are only like a 1000 away from each other IIRC), mine was a tourist delivery car. I got the Notch from the grandaughter of the original owner. And she remembers her grandfather talking about the lights, and the speedo having to be changed when it left Germany for the US after a few weeks to a month or so after taking delivery and touring. Should have been plenty of time for the replacement stocks to catch up to the car's production date. I'll try to remember to look for a production date on my speedo, it may shed some more light on this. Cheers, John La Francois Blauvelt, NY '67 Beetle (Bubb) Currently under Rustoration, by owner '65 Notch S (Nubb) Awaiting Rustoration '98 Jetta GL (Wolfgang) Wife's Daily Driver --- Keith Park <topnotch@nycap.rr.com> wrote: > > You may may be right that the new speedos came out > with the last of the 65 > cars, a March instrument date would probably show up > in a car that was made > in June or later. You ever have your speedo apart? > there may be a sticker > in there that tells more... when cars had their > speedos changed they marked > them inside. Its also possible that the guts were > changed out and the > original case used. > > Anyone else have any ideas? > > Keith > > > > Was that true of all 65s or was there a mid-year > change? My speedo is a > > 10-30-50-70-100 and is stamped 3/65 just like all > the other parts on > > the car. It wasn't a gray market car, it's a > tourist-delivery car set > > up for US specs at the factory. > > > > Scott > > 62 343, 65 361 > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org