UK-supplied 328 temp gauges: Fahrenheit?

On both my 308 & 550 it is MPH & Fahrenheit

Reason being I understand is MPH = primarily US market, and they combine that with degrees F, kmh & degrees C in e.g Europe

makes sense to me but others may have more specific knowledge

 

Questions like this are easily answered and with certainty by looking at the parts book.
US and all RHD cars got F. LHD cars besides US versions came with C. Makes perfect sense to me.

 

Not now there isnt. Cars were not built last week.

I could have sworn your question was about temp gauges. Now its speedometers?
Why dont you look in the parts books like I suggested?

 

The UK has a funny mix of Imperial and Metric units in their everyday lives -- you buy a pint of beer (not a 1/2 liter), distances are usually discussed in miles (not km), and their cars mileage performance in mpg but gasoline is sold by the liter.

 

For those that are interested it’s a long and tortuous story, with metric system being advocated to replace imperial from early 1800s and used for eg weather forecasting from early 1900s as scientists started to align globally.

Over a period from 1965 UK officially went metric with exception for miles, yards, feet etc for speed and distance (presume too hard to change all signs and speedos), Troy ounces for gold and other precious metals and pints for beer (and milk!) as that would be a change too far / would cause a revolt. Spirits and wine on the other hand must be sold in ml…

my kids who were 100% educated in metric system sometimes struggle to understand what a mile is, so I guess at some point kilometres may be adopted but not in my or their lifetime I expect

 

Except we call it 'petrol' and buy it in 'litres'.

 

Us Brits are used to metric imperial mix eg a sheet of plywood is 8' x 4' x 12.5mm

 

So is the rest of the World when it comes to tyres (unless you're using metric TRX tyres)

 

What do you mean by UK supplied 328s ?

I mean Euro type RHD 328 ( same as UK 328 ) were sold new to HK, Singapore, New Zealand, South Africa, Malaysia, Thailand, others ?.. Some of these country use(d) kilometer and celcius° so ...

 

Mile from mili, its 1000 right/ left strides of a typical (invading) Roman solder, duuuh!?!

 

I would suppose the question could also be formed as "308s and 328s delivered by Maranello Concessionaires", as they had the UK distributorship through the 70s-90s, and more.

I have a LHD "Euro" 308 GTS qv that is UK spec - the car was ordered by the Maranello Concessionaires agent on Jersey, Channel Islands, and while it is UK spec (rear fog lights, gauges in imperial psi, *F), the documentation/correspondence indicates that it was ordered to be LHD as the Jersey buyer would more often be driving in mainland Europe than on Jersey or UK islands.

(I tracked down the owner of the Maranello Concessionaires archive last winter with the help of members here, and he provided copies of all the order and delivery correspondence for my car)

It is fair to say with reasonable certainty that 308s and 328s delivered by Maranello Concessionaires in UK and region do all have imperial units on the gauges. (My car's speedometer was switched to km/h when it was imported to Canada in later 1980s)

Regards,
Gordon

 

My Maranello Concessionaires/UK supplied, 1976 built, 308gt4 has a speedo in mph and temp gauges in Celsius. kph and Fahrenheit are also marked in smaller, yellow text. Not sure what the fuel and oil pressure gauge units are, but since they barely function it's pretty academic. If they are not absolutely stuck on zero, I figure I'm good to go.

The speedo starts at 10 mph because these cars look so fast even when standing still. That may not be the same for GTB/GTSs.

 

My UK supplied 86 328 GTB
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Interesting but I don't know much about 308.

I have some 328GTS in my data delivered new by Melbourne Garage Ltd in Jersey and all were UK RHD type, nothing about LHD car.