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.