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PennAir Parts
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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?
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PennAir Parts
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| Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2024 6:57 pm Post subject: Re: Gauges |
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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?
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restojohnny
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| Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2024 7:38 pm Post subject: Re: Gauges |
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| 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?
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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 !!!! 
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NASkeet
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| Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2024 2:22 pm Post subject: Re: Gauges |
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| 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?
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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 !!!! |
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!?!
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NASkeet
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| Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:05 am Post subject: Re: Gauges |
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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!?!
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tstracy39
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| Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2024 5:53 am Post subject: Re: Gauges |
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| 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!?!
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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.
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NASkeet
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| Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2024 12:59 pm Post subject: Re: Gauges |
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| 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!?!
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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! 
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.
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Much modified, RHD 1973 VW "1600" Type 2 Westfalia Continental campervan, with the World's only decent, cross-over-arm, SWF pantograph rear-window wiper
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Volkswagen Type 2 Owners' Club (Great Britain)
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