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Brackets for Driving Lights
- Thread starter Tiger
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Pictures?
That's interesting. I have never seen this. Is there a picture of this anywhere? It would also be nice to see what this bar looks uninstalled, that way I would have an idea how to make one since I doubt there ate any for sale. Do these ever come up for sale? Thanks!
That's interesting. I have never seen this. Is there a picture of this anywhere? It would also be nice to see what this bar looks uninstalled, that way I would have an idea how to make one since I doubt there ate any for sale. Do these ever come up for sale? Thanks!
I believe that Rootes also made a bracket specific to mount fog/driving lights. I have one still in a Rootes box. It has a offset to hold the lights above the bumper. Made of very heavy steel with chrome plating. Also, I have a set made by some UK company back in the 60's for mounting fog lights
SIVAllan
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I've seen chromed brackets that mount to the chassis via the bumper bolts.
They are made to extend up and around the bumper and are sided.
Today they are scarce. I have one but not the other.
i asked a machine shop for an estimate to fabricate the missing side but the cost was very high.
I have to wonder that they were dealer supplied and accordingly were original and correct.
They position a pair of Rootes lights in exactly the correct location.
65beam
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i uploaded some photos of lamp brackets on my photobucket. http://s606.photobucket.com/albums/tt142/65beam/ there are photos of original rootes brackets, the ones for my badge bar bracket and the lucas brackets on the lamps that go on my series 4. the problem we're finding at this time is that the brackets for the original bar limit me to the size of lamps used. i could use my rootes lamps without interference with the hood when open but the larger lucas and lumax i have can only be used with the lucas brackets that use a spacer and bolt into the frame rail. ihave a local shop making four sets of the brackets that are in the photo of my lucas lamps.
i uploaded some photos of lamp brackets on my photobucket. http://s606.photobucket.com/albums/tt142/65beam/ there are photos of original rootes brackets, the ones for my badge bar bracket and the lucas brackets on the lamps that go on my series 4. the problem we're finding at this time is that the brackets for the original bar limit me to the size of lamps used. i could use my rootes lamps without interference with the hood when open but the larger lucas and lumax i have can only be used with the lucas brackets that use a spacer and bolt into the frame rail. ihave a local shop making four sets of the brackets that are in the photo of my lucas lamps.
alpine_64
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Rootes offered several different options for the driving/fog lamps. The early cars used lumax branded lamps and were mounted via either the badge bar setup or via seperate brackets that mount between the bumber mounting point on the front leg and used an extended bolt and spacer to move the bumper slightly forward for clearence. The early solo brackets came in a lower style and a taller offset style.
Suring S3 the cars also switched to a lumax lamp with ROOTES branding, these again had the badge bar mounted brackets or the stand alones. During SIV/Tiger production another style apperaed, these are the rootes/lumax lamps but the mounting post sits at an angle adn allows a more simple mounting bracket similar to the way toyanvils lamps work.. these are quite rare.. it took me about 8 years before getting a set (first lamp/bracket in 2004 the next one january this year!)
As Bob mentioned dealers often installed other options, lucas lamps were popular in period as were wipac and raydot.. but the factory rootes options were the Lumax lamps and later rootes branded ones.. they can be seen in the artciles section of the main page.
Suring S3 the cars also switched to a lumax lamp with ROOTES branding, these again had the badge bar mounted brackets or the stand alones. During SIV/Tiger production another style apperaed, these are the rootes/lumax lamps but the mounting post sits at an angle adn allows a more simple mounting bracket similar to the way toyanvils lamps work.. these are quite rare.. it took me about 8 years before getting a set (first lamp/bracket in 2004 the next one january this year!)
As Bob mentioned dealers often installed other options, lucas lamps were popular in period as were wipac and raydot.. but the factory rootes options were the Lumax lamps and later rootes branded ones.. they can be seen in the artciles section of the main page.