Topic: Standard equipment for GT/GTAs?

[dave6768]

I have a 68 GT, 302, 3 speed with no tach.

[sportyworty]

Perhaps the 4V and 4Sp triggered the tach considering Charles C code and your 3 Sp. We already know some got the 6K and others the 8K. It was not an early vs late nor GT thing. My J GT is early with 8K and S non GT Cal Spec is late with 6K both 4Sp

[ruppstang]

Perhaps the 4V and 4Sp triggered the tach considering Charles C code and your 3 Sp. We already know some got the 6K and others the 8K. It was not an early vs late nor GT thing. My J GT is early with 8K and S non GT Cal Spec is late with 6K both 4Sp

I went back and looked at the 67 tach option it calls for 6K & 8K tachs. The 68 option only mentions 8K so it makes no sense with late production cars with the 6K tach. We may never know on this one.

[Oz390]

On the '68 8k vs 6k issue.

My S GT coupe, Dec '67 San Jose build has an 8k tach.  I recently bought a complete and original looking '68 deluxe cluster with tach and clock, it is a 6k and has an ink stamp of "Sep5" on the back.  Which is anecdotal evidence of the 6ks being used "early"...

[70cj428]

Perhaps the 4V and 4Sp triggered the tach

This may be the case, as my late 68 (July 18) NJ S code was built with an 8K tach, with no mention of it on the Marti report, and I know of 4 other S code 4 speed 68's that all have tach's , and none have it shown as an option on the Marti report ( BTW, all 4 of the other cars are fairly late NJ built, and have 8K tach's) In 69 big block 4 speeds came with the tach standard (according to the dealer brochure, and a lot of examples I've seen).

Does anyone have a Marti report showing a 68 S code 4 speed that lists the Tach as an option ??

[ruppstang]

I would be interested to see how the 4spd was listed on the window sticker and it's cost to see if it was the combo 4spd / tach option.

[J_Speegle]

Seems like the discussion has focused on 68 as Midlife kind of left it opened in the original post

Staying with 68 and looking at just some of the  Marti reports (have 500+ if I wanted to go through all of them) here is what I found

Marti reports included Shelby's and non Shelby's

- Small blocks and big blocks with automatics have the tach and trip listed in the list of options

- Small blocks with manual trans have tach and trips listed in the options

- Big blocks with manual trans don't (at least in the samples even though we know that they received the tach/trip option on Shelby's) have it listed.

In window stickers of the ones I checked

- Tach & trip were not listed separately like they were in the Marti reports. And IMHO since they were included in the price they would not be - though, since the window stickers were often typed up by the dealerships some times they are found in the base description. But since some even include additional charges for other base offerings its difficult to figure out what the dealers were doing. Either they were padding the cost of the cars or something else but that discussion will get us way off thread

- Have a number of small block 4 speed non-Shelby with no mention of tach

[JeffTepper]

My recollection for the '67  "K" & "S" code cars with the 4 speed trans is that the tach came automatically bundled with the 4 speed.  If you look at the suggested retail pricing sheets of the options,  the "K" & "S" code 4 speed was $49.16  more expensive than the "C" & "A" code 4 speed. If I am not mistaken, that difference was the price of the stand alone tach option. 

[cmayna]

My SJ 68 with 4spd came with a tach.