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Re: Determining if car has O/D

To: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
Subject: Re: Determining if car has O/D
From: "James H. Nazarian" <microdoc@apk.net>
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 22:18:37 -0500
I think Max is right, so it is with him that I cast my humble vote.

Jim

Max Heim wrote:

> Well, I just looked it up in Clausager, and I'm afraid the answer is
> "no". At no time did the vehicle number indicate whether the car came
> equipped with overdrive.
>
> In a Mk. I car you could check the extreme end of the dashboard for the
> OD switch. A vacant hole doesn't mean anything either way, as non-OD cars
> just had a simple plug, which could easily have gone missing. Mine had an
> apparently-DPO-installed second hole (for a fog light switch or something
> -- why? when there already was one hole available) and no OD (which I
> confirmed by getting the British Motor Heritage certificate). Mine didn't
> have any trace of the OD wiring harness either, but I suppose you could
> look for that behind the dash, possibly stuck up out of the way, in a
> suspect car.
>
> If you want to know about a particular car that you own, you can always
> send away for the BMH certificate.
>
> Craig Brownlee had this to say:
>
> >
> >
> >Look in you Moss Catalog....  (you know those guys that rip us off by
> >providing
> >tons of free information)  They have a section in there that talks about
> >serial
> >numbers and how to read them.  There is a code that indicates whether a
> >car had
> >OD as it came from the factory.  I believe that I have seen that code
> >explained
> >in the Moss Catalog.
> >
> >Craig Brownlee
> >1977 MGB
> >1983 Jeep Wagoneer
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
>
> Max Heim
> '66 MGB GHN3L76149
> If you're near Mountain View, CA,
> it's the red one with the silver bootlid.


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