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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>The plot thickens. Seems like I’m not the only one..<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Attached.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Simon<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> grumpyinloomis <grumpyinloomis@ssctv.net> <br><b>Sent:</b> 05 November 2021 16:15<br><b>To:</b> simon.lachlan@alexarevel.plus.com<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [Healeys] Speedo cable routing.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>I also have that hole, early BJ8<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id="composer_signature"><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.5pt;color:#575757'>Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>-------- Original message --------<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>From: Simon Lachlan via Healeys <<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net">healeys@autox.team.net</a>> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Date: 11/5/21 9:08 AM (GMT-08:00) <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>To: 'Healeys' <<a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net">healeys@autox.team.net</a>> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Subject: [Healeys] Speedo cable routing. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Looking back through my files, I have contradictory info on this. So, here goes…..<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>My car is a RHD MkII BT7 with a centre shift box. It thus has the fibre glass tunnel cover which, I gather, continued to the bitter end in ’67.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>You may recall that I sent in a pic of my tunnel cover a few weeks back and asked if it was an original or a latterly made repro. Thankfully, you said that it was original but it was pointed out that it had an extra hole. See attached. As I interpreted it, the “extra hole” is to the right and the correct way in is through the centrally located “correct routing for speedo cable”.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Assuming that is correct, I am led to wonder for what purpose some PO had drilled that extra hole……I wonder if the speedo cable’s routing was so far out of line that it needed a slight short cut to achieve its destination. My cable goes through a grommet to the left of the bottom left corner of the control box. Is that correct? Or should it take a more central route?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Simon<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>