Aha! Thanks Kai, this explains why both my O/D an non-O/D '73Bs are 1280s
- and both accurate. I hadn't noticed the suffixes ("suffices"?).
Allen
>From: "Kai M. Radicke" <kradick1@ic3.ithaca.edu>
>
>I was wrong about the speedometers. I saw all the replies about the
>internals of the gauges being different and that is not at all what I
>recalled from memory, so I went and found Paul located our notes and damn
>it!
>
>Here is the scoop.
>
>The SN1280/XX is indeed the overdrive version of the SN1000/XX, and their
>internals are different and the swap can not be accomplished with a simple
>face change. However, there is another gauge that were fitted incrementally
>also in OD cars and the faces of SN1280/XX and SN1280/YY are
>interchangeable, the apparent difference is a change in (to quote Paul) "two
>dots or some foolish detail."
>
>And of course XX & YY are postfixes of additional numbers ie. 03, 13, etc.
>
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