So, I'm looking for a speedometer for my coupe and I come across this one on eBay. What 35-36 Ford came equipped with this? https://www.ebay.com/itm/1935-1936-...e=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649
Likely from an English Ford.........but nobody needs to know that. Put it in your car and it will automatically go faster. ...........Cheap speed equipment!
Well, now I feel stupid. If I had read further I would have noticed that it was a KPH speedo. I wasn't interested in buying it, but it piqued my curiosity when it popped up in my search. My original speedometer works fine ( Thanks to Rusty for building a cable to my M-22 ) but I have been looking for a "Police Special" to swap in. Thanks for not spanking me too badly.
I was on a long trip years ago in a remote area and was following along with the signs that told you how far away the next town was. I started scratching my head and cussing that the figures don't match my odometer. It was then that I was reminded that we were in Canada and they were in kilometers......doh!
There weren't too many 150 mph speedometers around in the 1930's, for sure. I have this one from a 1937 supercharged Cord. I always wondered if there were others. The normally aspirated car that year got the 120 mph version.
I am a long time Cord fan...so absolutely NO disrespect intended....but that was a marketing ploy! Ray
Reminds me of being at a car show about 30 years ago and two young kids were going around looking at cars and one kid points to the speedometer in a T bucket an says " this one is faster it will go 150."
Ha-ha...nobody is beating down the doors, Ray. I love the Cords, too. When I was a car-hop back in the early '60's, a guy used to come in with a black sedan with those gorgeous chrome pipes hanging out the side. I always made it my point to wait on him so I could ogle the dash. Getting back to the subject, I was hoping someone would chime in on other 1930's 150 mph speedos, but nada so far. I did a little research today & I found that the Deusenberg had one. I'm wondering if there's one in existence that's not in a car? Maybe in Jay's garage?
Just looking at that dash and remembering some of the instrument panels from Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon's spaceships. I don't see the button for the Death Ray, though.
I think that might be a cafe racer speedo from the '60's..? I wonder what the ratio is on that one? The more I contemplate the matter, the more I think the O.P. (remember him?) should use the British Ford speedo & ask Rusty to recalibrate it. Those bezels are pretty user friendly to remove & replace & his can be cleaned up with minimal effort...just use a soft brush to whisk the face. It would be a great conversation piece, too.
One of my favorite automobiles. Top speed, a little over 100 mph but then again how many stock showroom cars can bury a speedometer. Except maybe all those 80 mph ones that came out after the gas shortage. Marketing at it's best.
Miles per hours? Is that Chinglish? Strange, Smiths is good stuff. As for the original speedo, I'm pretty certain England did not use kilometers in the 1930s. Probably that's a French or other foreign unit.
That would be right at home here in Canuckerville...we are metric up here......the 36 speedo in the ole hotrod is mph and conversion is a wee pain.
180kph (111mph) in an original 46 Olds would be frightening to say the least Had mine upgraded from OEM (110mph) to 140, I now just need to decide what it is calibrated in, kph or mph?
It may be possible for some of these speedometers that you can change the drive and driven gears to make them read properly in miles per hour. There just have to be gears available to reduce the rpm of the cable by 0.62, or one of those gadgets that goes between the cable and transmission to speed it up or slow it down.
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