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Old 03-22-2019, 05:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Ron Scarboro View Post
I'd guess that given that it has both KMH and MPH on the dial and that the dial itself has a black center (vs the chrome center on the tach) that it is a recent manufacture of a classic gauge.
Ron, yes it could be a replacement speedometer, however looking through my pictures of COB/COX cars and Smith's speedometers in early CSX2xxx cars, virtually every car has the black cap on the needle pivot.

DC has previously said that the build spec. of COB/COX cars wasn’t as consistent chassis-to-chassis because they were built much more to order than CSX cars.

I’m thinking that maybe the COB6036's 170mph speedometer with an inner km/h scale might have been specified by the original owner. Maybe he crossed the channel regularly?

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Glen
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