Kelly 1963 FC-170
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Kelly's wife's grandfather recently purchased this 1963 FC-170.  He owned an FC-150 years ago and used it as a plow truck...so buying another FC was inevitable.  One curiosity about his new purchase stands out.  The FC-170's speedometer reads 0-14 vs the 0-9 on other's (pictures) we've seen. He suspected that this is a "metric" speedometer and reads in kilometers per hour vs miles per/hr.  This would make sense - as 140 KPH is approx. 90 MPH.  Others on the Forum tend to agree with this, but it must have been for exports other than Canada as they didn't convert over to the metric system until 1977.

Picture of Speedometer