Hello everyone,

I've just purchased my first F100 - 1955 - from South Carolina and I take delivery on Monday. I wanted to know if anyone has seen a conversion sticker from Miles to Kilometers that can be stuck on the front of the speedo face?

We have them here in Australia for our older cars - but I can't seem to find any info on them for USA Vehicles.

When it arrives I will upload some photo's. I can't wait. Thanks, Anthony.

 

Welcome to FTE from another aussie, this is a great forum with lots of friendly people....i think you find it difficult if not impossible to find the speedo conversion.
cheers John

 

Back when Canada changed over they sold a sheet with universal removable little round 10 through 100 stickers that you applied in the appropriate place. Think I saw them on eBay recently (maybe).

In the last couple of years I have had MPH speedo cars and it really isn’t that hard to do the conversion on the fly, 100 km = 60 mph I think? (60 mile/hour (mph) = 96.560 639 999 kilometer/hour)

 

Thank you very much for that. With all the speed and mobile camera's we have here in Australia I just wanted to be able to make sure I was at the right speed. I'll have a look on e-bay. Thanks again.

 

your gonna be driving a nearly 60 year old truck ...and your afraid of speeding?? I like you your an optimist !!! if the traffic is getting away ( usually)you too slow..if your gaining ..your speeding ..simple...only place I can speed is in the school zone..20 mph /30 kmh.. so what has your truck got in it??

 

I bought a gauge cluster from a fella downunder a few years back for my F-1 and it came with a standard o to 80 speedometer, did the fords export with klics on em? Welcome to the forum.

 

Thank you, I appreciate your point on that. It's got a 292 Y Block and I'm about to do the T5 conversion. I have a feel she'll do enough to get get me zapped by a camera so I just thought better to be safe than sorry. I've found a wed site in the UK that sells a set of stickers that you can basically use as you need to - so I'll have a look at that - otherwise I'll look at changing the cluster?

I've had old cars all my life but never a LHD car from the States so it's going to be a great adventure. My Daughter can't wait to sit on the opposite side of the car. She think's it's amazing?

 

I thought there was some law there that insisted you do a RHD conversion on vehicles imported to Australia? Has that been changed, or can you get some kind of exemption?

 

Yeah, there was a law that LHD vehicles had to be converted. I'm not sure when the law was changed (it's about 5 or so years ago now) but thankfully we can now get some real cars over here and drive them as the maker intended. There are plenty of people over here that still convert them because they prefer to drive them RHD - I prefer to leave it as is. That's just me. I had a 1956 Pontiac Coupe in the 90's that had been converted and it was nice but I wanted the LHD experience.

I have to say - I've been getting a heap of parts of NPD in the States and they have been fantastic. The postage is a killer but the prices and the quality beats anything here hands down.

I think this will be the first of a couple of American cars for me - I hope.

 

Welcome and congrads... I use a Garmin Nuvi GPS to check my speed every once in a while since it's such a old truck and many things have changed ober the years...
Just a thought you can think about

 

That is a very good idea, thank you. I never thought of that. As I burn everyone off at the lights I'll need to know what speed I'm doing? Won't I?

 

It's times like these that I wish I was more technology savvy? I'm trying to find where to upload a photo of the truck to attach to my user name? can anyone help me. Please.

 

Click to "User CP" (Left hand side)
Under "Settings & Options" you'll see "Edit Avitar"

 

Wild idea. Do you know of any speedometer shops around you? You can get an adapter gearbox with a 1.61 : 1 ratio. Run original speedometer cable to the box, and a short new cable to the speedometer. Numbers on speedometer will then be for kph, and odometer will run up in kilometers.

 

When I go to Canada I find it pretty easy to convert MPH to KPH. It doesn't take that much effort. It's the French I have trouble with! Never go into McDonalds and say Bon Jour...