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How many cars can you remember having "strip " speedometers?

A few of the family's cars had strip speedos and the one I will name here is the 1962 "facelift" Vauxhall Velox , LCC 648.
As in the photo above the strip was green up to 30mph, orange 40-60mph and red thereafter.

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Phil - Nottingham · Joined: 01 Jan 2008 Posts: 1252 Location: Nottingham

1961 Auto Union 1000S Coupe. Vertical VDO like contemporary Mercs. Also Mk1 Austin (not Morris) 1100's
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Rover 2000. SAAB 96
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47Jag · Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2016 9:37 pm Post subject:

Austin 1100 & 1800 Landcrabs.

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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22828 Location: UK

Volvo Amazons certainly do

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BigJohn · Joined: 01 Jan 2011 Posts: 954 Location: Wem, Shropshire

The Vauxhall PA Velox/Cresta strip speedo continued onto the PB Velox/Cresta. My Fathers 1965 3.3 PB had one.

kevin2306 · Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2016 8:49 am Post subject:

My Singer does

Excuse the fluffy seat covers, this pic was taken during the first visit to see if I wanted to buy the car.

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bob2 · Joined: 06 Dec 2007 Posts: 1728 Location: Malta

the hillman hunter, the earlier run of the mill ones.

roverdriver · Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2016 10:02 am Post subject:

Toyota Lite Stout Utility. I imagine other Toymotor products might have them too.
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MikeEdwards · Joined: 25 May 2011 Posts: 2737 Location: South Cheshire

My first car, a 1256 Viva did. And the next, a 1600 Firenza coupe. And my Dad's 1970 Morris 1300 has.

Penguin45 · Joined: 28 Jul 2014 Posts: 384 Location: Padiham

Mildly significan event on my 1800 strip speedo.

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Ellis · Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2016 1:47 pm Post subject:

I am willingly open to correction but I think that the last of the Farina Austin Westminster 3.0L and and the "new" Austin 3 Litre both had strip speedometers.
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lowdrag · Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Posts: 1600 Location: Le Mans

And hats off to 47jag. The Austin 1100 had the strip one and the Morris an ordinary one I seem to recall. As from memory did the MG, Riley and Wolseley versions. Always seemed silly to me.

Ashley · Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 1426 Location: Near Stroud, Glos

I had a Rover P6 3500 that had one I think.

badhuis · Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 1479 Location: Netherlands

I have memories of my father driving his 1966 Opel Rekord with strip speedo meter turning RED when going over 100 km/u. We loved that!

The Westminster A110 Super De Luxe has one and the Chamois has a kind of (well it is not round and it seems Rootes wanted to have a modern strip-like effect):

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