Unusual 150 MPH Ford speedometer?
 

Can anyone tell me the application for this Ford speedometer. I have looked at lots of early Ford V-8 speedometers and all seem to be 100 MPH max. This one goes to 150 MPH! What the heck is this from? Thanks for any help!

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Perhaps kilometers per hour for European use?

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Could it be kilometers per hour?

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I have a gage panel for a 35 Chevy standard and the speedometer is 150 also--I think it was a Canadian car--I noticed that the speedo pictured has something scratched out near the bottom of the face--Possibly KPH??

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Canadian makes sense especially with something scratched out at the bottom. If you do the math, 100 MPH equals 160.93 KPH, so its still kind of a mystery. But thanks for looking!

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Definitely a Kilometer speedo. I have one in my 33 phaeton(previous owner installed it because it matches the glove box radio dial that is Kilohertz). Mine does have "KPH" printed in the center under the hole for the needle. Someone scratched off the KPH from that one.

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I think it would be the metric equivalent to a 90MPH speedo like Ford used on some trucks.

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Yes, 150 KPH is approximately 90 MPH.

Sal

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Yup, close enough.......150 kph = 93.226~ mph. DD

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However Canada didn't use metric until 1976.
So it wouldn't be from here.

Kirk

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That looks a lot like a Stewart Warner instrument.

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Yup, looks like mine. The SW's have a peg that sticks up through the case. You can just see it on the back, top right of the case. The hole that it goes through is slotted. I dont think any of the others have this peg.

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Why would some idiot scratch off the KMH . Oh I know to impress his idiot buddies the his car can do 150 something or other.
Destroyed a cool speedometer .