WEIRD THERMOSTAT

Another oddity of the RHD BN2 project.  A weird thermostat of all things.  At least I’d never seen one like it.  It’s marked made in USA so it’s not the original, and it likely dates from the 1960s when the car was imported to the USA.

This is the top:

Side view reveals the operating mechanism, kinda:

And the underside reveals that it’s rated at 180 degrees:

It’s tempting to start a rumor that it’s the ultra-rare Le Mans thermostat, installed by Donald Healey myself, at the Bonneville Salt Flats, and it later went on to be in the 1958 Paris show car, and was briefly owned and raced by Stirling Moss.

No, I can’t prove it.  Can you disprove it?

It could be for sale, but not for cheap.