Codes behind the dash

[David_Doan]

I've been tearing down and cleaning my car to prep for paint. I have the infamous codes in chalk behind the dash. So far I have been able to decipher/guess:

RED = Red paint and/or red trim
15L = Left hand drive? (not sure about the 15, maybe that is redundant since the dash is clearly a LHD dash.)
H= heater
RIG = ???
W/W = Windshield washer
MPH = MPH speedo/odo
26655 = Chassis number

I'd appreciate any comments or suggestions.




Thanks,

David

 

[jjscott]

David: Your dash back is suspiciously like mine. Serial in my case is 37600. Car was white w/ red interior. I wonder if the white lettering in the radio cutout might be an assembly line sequence number. Mine is written inverted.

Jim

 

[David_Doan]

Jim, my car is red with red interior. I guess the "red" on the back of the dash is for the interior color. Yours also says "RIG" or "RI6" or R16". I wonder what that means? Your car was 11,000 units later than mine and the hand writing looks the same.

 

[HealeyRick]

I suspect what you're seeing as R16 is actually R/C for "rev counter" an option on the bugeye. If you look carefully there is a loop at the top of the C as well as the bottom.

 

[David_Doan]

Thanks, that just leaves numbers in the radio cut-out as unknown.

 

[drooartz]

Very similar to the markings that were on the Tunebug. Can't remember what the 15L on the radio cutout was for.