Re: alfa-digest V7 #1140

[Sidney Gage <sidney_gage@domain.elided>]

Our '67 GTV ("the one we've got") does use the third dash-mounted toggle
switch for the panel lights. Curiously there is also a toggle switch
mounted horizontally on the heater control module attached below the dash,
and it operates the four-way flashers. Does anyone know whether this was a
standard item on a US-spec '67 car?

There is also a very nice chrome Bosch map light under the dash, which
turns on and off when its rotating-sleeve cover is opened and closed.
Original??

Sid Gage


>From: Scott Fisher <sefisher@domain.elided>
>Subject: Re: The best gtv
>
>Robert Brady asks, "Has anyone made a nice console to house the hvac
>controls and switches for a GTV?  I've seen Juniors (which have a nice,
>simple interior).  They mount the hvac controls right below the dash,
>horizontally, but I can't remember where the windshield wiper and fan
>switches were mounted.  Scott Fisher (or any other Junior owner), can
>you answer this question?"
>
>Sure -- the wiper and fan switches are mounted in the (fiberboard) dash,
>just above the lower vinyl trim bit and below the smaller gauges in the
>center of the dash.  My car has, I think, three -- wipers, heater fan,
>and one other which was a no-op when I got the car (had been wired to a
>Facet fuel pump by a previous owner; the PO from whom I bought the car
>had returned to the Alfa engine-mounted fuel pump and the blank switch
>was unwired).  I don't think I've ever learned (or at least, I can no
>longer remember) what that third switch was for in the original --
>someone suggested it turned off the panel lights, I think, but it's lost
>in the deeps of time.
>
>And of course, everyone's missed the real answer to the question of
>which GT is best:
>
>It's the one you've got. :-)
>
>- --Scott Fisher
>

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