Re: Two different faced 8 grand 70-71 E-body tachs
[Re: m46rat]
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I was just looking for pics of tachs in dealership sales brochures. The 72 Challenger brochure printed in August of 71 shows a 70-71 dash with an 8K tach. unfortunately you can't see the redline due to the angle of the picture. In the Illustrated Facts and Features Manuals (unknown print dates)... The 71 Challenger manual shows a 70-71 dash with a 7K tach. The 72 Challenger manual shows a different 70-71 dash with a 7K tach. The 74 Challenger manuals picture is washed out and hard to see, but I think it's a 7K tach. Only the 70 challenger and 70 barracuda manuals show 8K tachs, but interestingly they both have a different gauge face than what we're all used to seeing. Instead of the needle sweeping from lower right around to upper right, it sweeps from lower left around to lower right kind of like the speedometer. All of that info may not mean much, but I think we should still be looking at the late 71/early 72 cars for more clues. Tav
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Re: Two different faced 8 grand 70-71 E-body tachs
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I checked mine over the weekend. My R/T was built in March w/ a 440 Magnum. It has the redline @ 6500.
1970 Challenger Convertible soon to be T/A convertible
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Re: Two different faced 8 grand 70-71 E-body tachs
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Alright guys Dan and I found a 70 barracuda 383 2 barrel auto trans with its original rallye dash...
"ok heres the info on my tach.....yes its the same one it was born with lol at 5k it is a yellowish color up to 6,500 rpm then its a redish orange up to 8k"
Tav
the car belongs to me the car build date was dec.69 it also came factory with cruise control(still works) still own the car it needs to be restored
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Re: Two different faced 8 grand 70-71 E-body tachs
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I have an original untouched rallye dash setup in my 74 Challenger that I installed from a 383 automatic 71 Challenger R/T and it has the redline at 5500.
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Re: Two different faced 8 grand 70-71 E-body tachs
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1971 Hemi Challenger owned by the same person for 30+ years, 605 built, dash never restored, had the 5500 RPM Redline 8 Grand tach. Could it possibly be a late 71 change as production eased into 1972. All 7 Grand tachs have a 5500 redline.
Is 605 the # of cars built, or the build date? What is the build date?
We need to collect all the build dates we can find for cars with the 5500 redline.
I'm still thinking yes, late 71/early 72.
Tav
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Re: Two different faced 8 grand 70-71 E-body tachs
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1971 Hemi Challenger owned by the same person for 30+ years, 605 built, dash never restored, had the 5500 RPM Redline 8 Grand tach. Could it possibly be a late 71 change as production eased into 1972. All 7 Grand tachs have a 5500 redline.
Terry are you sure on the SPD, because I always thought that late 71s switched to the 7k tach.
That's what my 71 Sixpack SPD 331 and the survivor triple black hemi Challenger both had.
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Re: Two different faced 8 grand 70-71 E-body tachs
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Terry is sure about the June build date on the car that has the 5500-8000 tach. The car sits in my garage. Terry had phoned me about what I had in my cars. I have 4 E Bodies with Rallye Dashes. The Two Cudas are Nov. built and have the 6500-8000 Tach. The Challenger is Oct. built and has the 6500-8000 Tach. I had never really taken the time to look at the cars in detail like this. I run a tach drive Tach that is on the steering column in the June built car at present, so I never really see the Chrysler Tach. I think Terry might of taken a picture of my Dash at some time. Terry and I then went to the next big mopar shows looking at the dashes to see what tach was in June built cars. We also talked to Floyd that vends across from us because I knew he had a late built E Body also. If you read Floyds post that is a couple above this one he states that same thing as Mccannix does.
1971 HEMI E BODY REGISTRY
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