Headlights

Post by **bigginger** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:29 pm

Because it would have meant re-designing/tooling up for/manufacturing new front wings?
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Post by **alex_holden** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:43 pm

bigginger wrote:Because it would have meant re-designing/tooling up for/manufacturing new front wings?

The other way round, surely? They had to retool for the later style of combined sidelight/indicator, when they could instead have changed to a Mini style headlight with integrated sidelight and fitted an indicator where the sidelight was on earlier cars.

Post by **bigginger** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:03 pm

Don't know when the front light changed, and was too lazy to look it up - hence the '?'
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Post by **bmcecosse** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:10 pm

All they would have to have done is put an orange bulb (or orange lens) in the original side-light fitting!