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This is not a quiz question. I have 2 speedometers I stumbled across and wonder what years they were used. One is an 80 mph. Kind of figure it's late 70's on. The other is a 150mph. That ones got me puzzled. Both are HD's. Thanks for the help.
John
The 80 MPH would be courtesy of Jimmy Carter so very late 1970's to very early 1980's. It may not be in the 1970's at all. I don't remember exactly when they mandated the 80 MPH speedos. It looks just like the one on my 1984 FXEF.
The top appears to be what was introduced around 1980 for FX models; a similar version was used on FLH models as MoCo stopped using Stewart Warner speedos and switched to the "throw-away" Nippon Seki type for all their later builds.
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