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Oddities....

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fast400

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Since I've had my Swiss TTA for a few weeks now, I figured I post a pic of my dash...see if you see the oddity!
The car was sold in Switzerland 28 June 1990...I'm assuming it was new.
 

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I don't think it was swapped. The car was sold new in Switzerland. When I replaced the heater core this weekend, I took a look at the bolts around the console and they don't look like they've been touched...
 
They might have put that cluster in there due to the export out of the US with the car no matter where it went just because it left the US. It might have even had to go thru Canada to be exported new. Like Jan said it's just the typical KM/h speedo you have.
 
My understanding is that GM never offered them outside of the US however a dealer export when new might explain this if they swapped in the KMH dominant speedo. I know of one sold in FL brand new for export to Sweden but not sure if it got the MPH or KMH dominant speedo in it.

Are all the other gauges metric or imperial? The 2 KMH gauges I got from Canadian export 1989 GTA's all have Centigrade and liters instead of Fahrenheit and gallons etc.

But it's pretty cool, if I ever move back to Sweden I might set one of my KMH speedos to the correct reading and install it in mine.
 
Forgot to ask if you bought Matt's TTA from Austria or is this another one we are not aware of as I heard there might have been 2 in Switzerland and one Matt bought maybe 5 years ago and imported into Austria.
 
Depends on the car manufacture and where it's going Jan, but all the other gages usually read metric as well. Some cars (with full digital dashes) would have a button on the dash that would make all the gages go from standard to metric. I sold a Bronco to someone in Canada and they sent me paper work of certain things I had to do to the truck before import. One was to make sure the speedo read KM/h and that it had daylight running lights installed. But when new I think a dealer could order the car read for export and it would come with the KM/h cluster. One thing is for sure I bet there isn't to many TTA's running around with that speedo! :)
 
Rich,
Here's the VIN #1G5FW2170KL243638. Some old Carfax info shows it was delivered to New Jersey...but no Owner!??
Bob
 
Almost forgot another oddities is the headlight harness. It looks unspliced and original, but has a European style H4 connector and H4 Bulb (not sealed beam unit). The actual headlight has a hole in the back for the H4 bulb??!
 
Do European boost gauges use a different method of monitoring manifold pressure? I thought I saw something like that in "Turbo and High Tech" magazine used in a Porsche. Like Kilograms/Meter instead of pounds/inch? Would the gauge be converted like:
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They use BAR...don't ask what it stand for? I think if the car was imported to Swiss land though, they simply installed a km/h from the factory, as they were readily available vs making a boost gauge for one car.DontKnow:
 
fast400 said:
They use BAR...don't ask what it stand for? I think if the car was imported to Swiss land though, they simply installed a km/h from the factory, as they were readily available vs making a boost gauge for one car.DontKnow:
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the bar is approximately 1 atm, or the pressure of the atmosphere that we live in (about 14.7 psi). So for every bar it's the equivalent of increasing the pressure of the atmosphere by that factor (1 bar=14.5psi, 2 bar=29psi, 3 bar=43.5 psi, etc). It's not exact and I have no idea why they don't use atm instead since it's closer, guess it's just another one of the messed up units that we use.

Here are some funny old units of measurement I learned in one of my classes that you guys might find amusing:
poppy seed - approx 3/4 of an inch
Shaftment - width of hand and outstretched thumb 6 1/2 inches
Span - width of outstretched hand from thumb to pinky
Cubit - length of forearm, 18 inches
Fathom - from one fingertip to the other, 6 feet
Furlong - Distance a plow team could be driven without rest, varied lengths determined by region. Now deemed 660 ft
Mile - originally 5000 ft, lengthened to 5280 ft to make it an even number of furlongs

I thought some of those were pretty interesting and most of them are obsolete now, but were commonly used in the 1000s
 
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