getting shop in order,
putting parts in bins, drawer, boxes , With LABELS !

Came across bunches of ashtrays, happened to notice one a off from others.

Click to view attachment

my others has spring on left side.

Click to view attachment

Is there a hole on the other side? Maybe it is a year thing. Mine is a 72 and has it on the left.

It's from a RHD car ...

Good answer!!!

INDEED!

no hole on other side.

My guess is;
plate got flipped after hole drilled, before machine that bends the tabs,

spring person install spring.no biggie

what ya think?

(I've a rare RHD one!)

Obviously, it's for left-handed smokers .

I was thinking the same thing

I didn’t think the factory made any RHD 914’s. Would it be in the scope of a conversion company to reengineer an ashtray, that is already in the middle of the dash just to move that spring?

maybe from a .....


G rasshopper.....

With all the RHD threads (Thanks @wonkipop ) and the extensive research in those threads I'm surprised one of the RHD critters haven't posted.

Seems silly to me to re-engineer something that probably worked fine as is.

And "just like that" we have a whole nother insignificant thing to argue about.

Cheers to the OP for noticing such a small detail!

Now, all of us are going to at least check which side the spring is on in our cars trying to find another unicorn ashtray!

A month later,

Someone will post "Unicorn ashtray" in the classified and want $300 for it

A week later,
SOLD!

OK, ya 'made me look'...

What about the 'no spring' option? And it isn't a case of the spring simply missing. The flapper has the hole on the left side, but the front frame assembly that the other end would connect to doesn't have a hole. There is a slight indentation, but it looks like it was never punched out. So wondering if mine ever had a spring...

Be interesting if any more "RHD'
are out there.

the spring and be easily bump off as it happened when I was cleaning it.

super easy to put back on with lil pick tool.

was cleaning to put up for sale, but now it's a "Unicorn?"

Try it!

My comment was in jest but...

I don't care about where the spring is in the ashtray.

I'll remove mine to replace it with a cell phone mounts anyways.

I'm not a buyer.

Someone else might be!

I'll laugh my ass off if you sell it for "big bucks"

Edit: Your ash trays appear very clean. I bet they will sell (for normal price) quickly.

I definitely be smiling if fetch big bucks!

Put in into Car-B-Q.

Car-B-Q get's upgrade from a ashtray!

It's all Good

What's the value on ashtray, please PM me.

another shot of the RHD

Click to view attachment

Click to view attachment

That RHD ashtray spring is on the Left.

This just screwed up the equalizing.

Come on people!
I've checked Ebay,18 of em, 17 has Left side spring,
(one couldn't get a good shot of spring location.)

Check your ashtray,

Click on What you did to your 914 today,


There's has to be another RHOne

no Right hand spring ashtray out there?

one out of how many 914's?