Pedals catywampus

[JHertzman@xxxxxxx]

Didn't mean to omit the redoubtable (and undoubtable) Graham Hilder in my
notes responding in part to Les Singh on proper floor pedals versus upside-
down pedals on GT Veloces. 

I checked what parts books I have (1750 GT Veloce and 2000 Berlina) and my
suspicions were confirmed; all RHD 2000 Berlinas have floor-mounted pedals
while all LHDs have pendants, and I would bet that the 2000 GT Veloce did the
same for the same reasons. For the 1750 GT Veloce, according to the parts
books the RHD cars have floor-mounts throughout while the Euro LHD have floor-
mounts to 1375000 and pendants from 1375001 on, a break-point which is mid-
year 1971 according to Fusi (1371586 to 1376224) and beginning of 1970
according to d'A-T. The parts-book says the 1750 USA cars have floor mounts up
to 1532000 and pendants above 1532001, which puts the break-point sometime
before Fusi's 1968 start point of 1533201. Something is not right. D'A-T's
numbers suggest that some arcane numbering system was being used in this
period, with 1532001, 03, 07, and 11 in 1970, 1532002 in 1973, 1532004 in 1971
and so forth- a whole page of from this number to that number in this year
except for these in this other year and these others in still another.
Probably some batches of numbers were reserved for special company uses, but
the USA pendant-pedal coupes would all fall in 1970 and later.

Regardless of the numbering confusion, a look under the hood confirms that
there would be serious space conflicts in putting an LHD-style pendant pedal
assembly, booster and master cylinder on a RHD car.

The RHD people also get short-changed on foot-room; the tilted engine (for
added induction-system room) puts the transmission tunnel appreciably to the
right of the centerline. The story used to be that this showed the priority
the Italians gave to the driver's needs over the passenger's comfort, but it
may have just been a happy side-effect (for LHD people) of a mechanically
convenient tilt.

John

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