Read your article that you linked. It was a good read. I think that I will do the same

Plans:

Arrivals begin Thursday via caravans & etc.

Thursday night dinner is with the Dune buggy guys at the field.

Friday 10am step off for a covered bridge tour, which goes to lunch at Grandpa’s Love Shack at about 1. From there you can head to the show field, back to hotel or elsewhere.*

Friday dinner is the venerable Restaurant Scramble. Or…[Read more]

An link to planned activities?

Should arrive Thursday safternoon

I had the same problem with my speedometer and also the oil pressure.  I replaced everything with new VDOs and utilized the cable to transducer conversion that Al mentioned.  The speedometer was way too bouncy and that made the calibration inaccurate. I suspect something else was going on with my cable.  I gave up and purchased the gps receiver fr…[Read more]

Just so happened to come across this post. I knew i recognized this specific car and then I remembered that it is for sale near where I live. I was looking into trying to purchase it before I found a better deal. Anyways, here is the link https://www.facebook.com/share/xvrzWM6oc5Nd7qAk/?mibextid=79PoIi

Here’s how it ended up:

That looks really nice, that is a good idea replacing with a real VW speedometer

Thanks

Hey Richard!

When I did mine, about 10 years ago, I bought a used ’73 Bug Speedometer, a white-face gauge kit, and a chrome bezel, then got a Classic Instruments tach in the 5-inch size to (sort of) match. This of course snowballed into a major dashboard refurb but it ended up pretty good imho and it was a fun project.

Thank you for your help. I check the 2 sites , good places for possible replacement.

Thanks for your help

Was showed this site by someone else on the form, they have a bunch of replacement parts:

https://mgmagicclassicmotorparts.com/interior/?page=7

I am not sure if they have a speedometer for the mg replica specifically, but it may be worth a check to see if the ones they have are the right size.

-S

Richard

I replaced all of my instruments, including speedometer obtained from Classic Instruments.  At the time, 2011, they sold a adapter for VW, a cable that fit square home in front wheel bearing cap with electronic transducer that interfaced with speedometer.

Bit late but can you get rid of the rear crab effect by using adjustable shocks.  Thanks