[Healeys] Rear reflectors on 1963 BJ MK II Twin Carb

Oudesluys coudesluijs at chello.nl
Wed Oct 14 01:22:04 MDT 2009


There are and were some differences.
Red (US spec) blinkers at the rear and white blinkers at the front are 
tolerated in imports. The rear blinkers in EU have always been orange, 
the front ones used to be orange or white but are now orange.
Side markers are not legal in most EU countries and have to be 
disconnected on US imports.
US spec sealed beams are not legal in most or all LHD EU countries and 
have to be replaced by Hella/Saturn/Cibie etc. units. There may be some 
differences as well in the height of the head lamps.
In EU red reflectors are required at the rear, orange reflectors on  the 
sides of trailers and long vehicles, white reflectors on the front of 
trailers, I do not think that they are required on any motor vehicles, 
perhaps on sticking out parts.
Kees Oudesluijs
NL

Bernard Cristalli schreef:
> I think that, back in the days, US and european specs were identical.
> You can register a period "american" car without any modification for 
> they were completely the same.
> The change was in 67 I think.
>
> Bernard
>
> robertduquette at sympatico.ca a icrit :
>> My 55 BN1 has white reflectors.  According to BMIHT my car was 
>> shipped to the
>> US.  ( Sorry lads ... you're not getting it back! ;) )  I think I read
>> somewhere that white reflectors are european spec.  I would be pretty 
>> sure
>> that they aren't original to the car.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>  
>>> To: gonnagitcha90 at hotmail.com; healeys at autox.team.net
>>>
>>> Orange reflectors of the same design as used on Healeys were used as 
>>> side
>>>     
>> reflectors on British motorcycles.? Could be that a previous owner 
>> replaced
>> the stock red ones with orange.
>>  
>>> Bill Wilkman
>>>
>>> BT7
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Richard Collins <gonnagitcha90 at hotmail.com>
>>>
>>> A friend of mine here in Kentucky has a very nice one which has the 
>>> tail
>>> reflectors in orange in lieu of the usual Red inserts. He thinks it 
>>> is an
>>> original German car although he has had it for nearly 20 years. Is this
>>> unusual or normal color for these reflectors?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Richard of KY
>>> 1960 BN7
>>>     
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