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Fri Jan 26, 2024 6:55 pm

I got my hands on these Claudes Buggies gauges the other day… they came out of a chop top that was built is the 70s. I was wondering how many of them are out there?

Fri Jan 26, 2024 6:57 pm

I got my hands on these Claudes Buggies gauges the other day… they came out of a chop top that was built is the 70s. I was wondering how many of them are out there?

Fri Jan 26, 2024 7:38 pm

PennAir Parts wrote: I got my hands on these Claudes Buggies gauges the other day… they came out of a chop top that was built is the 70s. I was wondering how many of them are out there?

Here in California I have found alot of the claudes buggies oil pressure and oil temp gauges in that style. The cylinder head temp one is the hard one to find ... AWSOME SCORE !!!! 8)

Sat Jan 27, 2024 2:22 pm

restojohnny wrote: PennAir Parts wrote: I got my hands on these Claudes Buggies gauges the other day… they came out of a chop top that was built is the 70s. I was wondering how many of them are out there?

Here in California I have found alot of the claudes buggies oil pressure and oil temp gauges in that style. The cylinder head temp one is the hard one to find ... AWSOME SCORE !!!! 8)

Back in the early-1980s, one of my engineering-student colleagues at Cranfield Institute of Technology, on the Bedfordshire & Buckinghamshire border in England, had a Claude's Buggies catalogue which I briefly borrowed for interest. In those days, automotive parts & accessories mail-order catalogues were virtually unknown in the United Kingdom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranfield_University#Cranfield_Institute_of_Technology_(1969-1993)

I suspect that what was then known as Claude's Buggies, later became known as CB Performance!?!

Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:05 am

I recently came across some pictures of a British Army surplus 6x6 Pinzgauer 718 off-road ambulance, which featured an interesting VDO Cockpit accessory style dual range speedometer (i.e. 0~90 mph & 0~150 kmph) with odometer & trip-counter, which if it is of the appropriate calibration, might be suitable for classic VWs!?!

Thu Mar 21, 2024 5:53 am

NASkeet wrote: I recently came across some pictures of a British Army surplus 6x6 Pinzgauer 718 off-road ambulance, which featured an interesting VDO Cockpit accessory style dual range speedometer (i.e. 0~90 mph & 0~150 kmph) with odometer & trip-counter, which if it is of the appropriate calibration, might be suitable for classic VWs!?!

Pinzgauer speedos are calibrated to 625 rpms equals 60 kilometers per hour indicated on the dial. So on a VW, it would indicate 16.8 kilometers too fast at 60 kilometers per hour.

Thu Mar 21, 2024 12:59 pm

tstracy39 wrote: NASkeet wrote: I recently came across some pictures of a British Army surplus 6x6 Pinzgauer 718 off-road ambulance, which featured an interesting VDO Cockpit accessory style dual range speedometer (i.e. 0~90 mph & 0~150 kmph) with odometer & trip-counter, which if it is of the appropriate calibration, might be suitable for classic VWs!?!

Pinzgauer speedos are calibrated to 625 rpms equals 60 kilometers per hour indicated on the dial. So on a VW, it would indicate 16.8 kilometers too fast at 60 kilometers per hour.

I had a feeling that identifying a VDO Cockpit speedometer with an appropriate speed range, would be too good to be true! :cry:

Who in their right mind, would want to drive a classic air-cooled VW at more than 90 mph, even if local laws misguidedly permit it!?!

Personally, I think an 80 mm diameter speedometer is too small, which was only one of the reasons I didn't use the following VDO Cockpit style speedometer that I bought as part of a job-lot of six gauges.

I would personally prefer to use a 105 mm diameter speedometer in my 1973 VW "1600" Type 2, with integral warning lights and fuel gauge, as factory-fitted to VW Type 1 Beetles.

Fri May 24, 2024 11:50 am

I feel like this is a pretty rare thing to get...dates 03/61' on paperwork and 09/61' tachometer..

Fri Feb 14, 2025 3:11 pm

Another 3-1 Motest / Motometer project. BUT! For anyone who's has one of these in their hoard for decades looking for senders, I did come up with a functional solution.
Gauge is unmodified, 6V .
I sourced a Bosch fuel sender from amazon for $23, reversed the function and it works fine.
Oil temp took a bit more work. But with a couple small electronics added in it will work with nearly any temp sender, and can be calibrated perfectly.
Here's one that reads high 'N' temp @ just about 215* , and max @ 240*.

Very stoked, I have always wanted one of these functioning...

Just not enough to sacrifice this.