Brentco |
07-02-2023 05:53 PM |
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Originally Posted by unruhjonny
(Post 6437325)
lol.
On occasion, someone comes here and swears till they are blue in the face that their car is 100% original in spite of a gap in the vehicle history;
If people like me don’t speak up, bad information spreads.
The hobby is better off when inaccuracies are called out for what they are.
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Understood and agreed. I’m not trying to be dogmatic, and I’m not saying I’m 100% sure my tach is original. I acknowledge it’s possible it could have been replaced, but I’m just trying to weigh the facts and go where they lead me.
For this 6K tach to not be original, it would mean that 1) the original tach malfunctioned and had to be replaced in the first few years of the car’s life; 2) the dealership replaced it with the wrong tach from a different MY; and 3) there are typos in the official GM parts books and the entries that list the 6K tach as one of the tachs for 1976 are just incorrect. It’s not impossible that all these coincidences piled up, but to me the much simpler explanation is that the parts books mean what they say and the 6K tach came with my car originally.
I understand you’ve seen a lot of 76 trans ams, and every one one you’ve seen has had an 8k tach, but that doesn’t mean every 76 trans am had an 8k tach. Even if you’ve worked on 500 different 76 trans ams — an extremely high number — it would only be 1% of the 46k cars sold that year. A 1% sample is not enough to rule out the possibility that a subset of the production year was different.
Just trying to go off the best available evidence to, as you said, make sure we do our best to drill down to accurate information.
Personally, as much as I love Burt Reynolds, I’ll need more than Smokey and the Bandit deductions to convince me the parts books are wrong.
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