engine and drivetrain North Hollywood Speedo Comes Through

[AceAndrew]

I've been looking for a nice VDO Series-one clock to round out my gauge cluster for quite a while and was getting a little discouraged.  They've been NLA for a number of years and non-existent on any message board.  Called North Hollywood Speedo for some other gauges and asked if they had the little clock hiding away.  The gentleman who answered the phone said "well why don't we just make you one?  We can make it look extremely close to the original."

 

Got the gauges yesterday including the little clock and am very very happy.  (while their site doesn't list prices, they were less-expensive than egauges when I asked for a quote)   Now I'm dusting off the tachometer to send it over to be recalibrated for the M20.

 

Love the series-one gauges with the silver dollar cluster, but for the moment, here's everything mocked up.

 

Edited December 12, 2013 by AceAndrew

[Napes]

+1 on North Hollywood Speedometer.  They fixed, cleaned, and re-calibrated my speedo this past summer and I'm very pleased with the work, the final product, and the turn-around time.

 

Bob Napier

[roadhog0]

I think they're going to get my speedo here this summer. The 20+% off thing is pissing me off... I'll have to give them a call when I buy my new VDO's here soon too!!

[dbmw2002]

Tried buying a speedo on FAQ classified, another deadbeat seller beat me outa 50 bones, shoulda taken the high road and sent my old one to Hollywood, bought it wrong now I will buy it twice, FAQ sellers, are they all deadbeats?

Edited December 12, 2013 by dbmw2002

[bnam]

Speedo is also avail new from WuN.  I bought the right one for my lsd conversion from them.

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[Nesset127]

Noob question. What exactly does VDO mean? I've been tryin to figure that out for a while lol.

[bnam]

Brand of the meter manufacturer.  

[John_in_VA]

Noob question. What exactly does VDO mean? I've been tryin to figure that out for a while lol.

Time to fire up your Google machine!

If we are to believe Wiki:

VDO was founded by Adolf Schindling and the result of a merger between DEUTA (Deutsche Tachometer-Werke GmbH) and OTA Apparate GmbH (Offenbacher Tachometer-Werke GmbH) in the German city of Frankfurt am Main in 1929. VDO stands for "Vereinigte DEUTA - OTA."

In 1991 the company was acquired by Mannesmann. In 1999 Mannesmann was itself acquired by Vodafone and VDO was put up for sale. In 2000 the company was acquired by Siemens AG, Germany's biggest engineering company, and re-branded as Siemens VDO.

On 28 August 2007, VDO was acquired by Continental AG for €11.4 billion. The New York Times noted that Continental's move came at a time when the supplier industry in the United States, the biggest auto market in the world, found itself in worst shape in recent memory.

[Rocan]

North Hollywood Speedo is just about the only place I would send a gauge to for restoration. I have used them on numerous occasions for many top dollar vehicles (unfortunately none of which were my own, haha!) and the results were always top notch! 

[jgerock]

Nice work Andrew.  It gives me some ideas for the IE gauge cluster for my 69.

 

IIRC, at one point, the company was called VDO Yazaki.

[John_in_VA]

Is Palo Alto Speedometer not a viable option?

http://paspeedo.com/

[ray_]

That's pretty cool, Andrew!

 

Cheers,

[AceAndrew]

Thanks guys, and for the record before someone questions the oil pressure range, this is intended for the M20, not the M10.  

 

John - I don't know, just don't have any reason NOT to use North Hollywood.

[jgerock]

Here is another company..not sure how long ago work was done. This sticker was on my 69 speedo.

[Kidasters]

Is Palo Alto Speedometer not a viable option?

http://paspeedo.com/

Ha ha.  PA speedo is a viable option.  I've had both do work, and with both it's excellent.

 

By the way, both are run by a guy named Hartmut.  One is young, one is old - can't remember which is which.  But - the young Hartmut is actually named after the old Hartmut.  

 

Anyway - it was NHSpeedo that re-faced the speedo in my old Mini to add MPH  

 

 

and it was NH Speedo that completely refurbished and added LED's to my 911 gauges.

 

But I think it was PA speedo that did the 2002 cluster