[Healeys] Lucas headlight bucket

[john spaur]

Well... both buckets are Lucas, and old, but there are subtle but 
important differences that I find to be very interesting. The bucket 
with lighter gauge metal, I suspect is a fake reproduction. The 
identification stamping is poor at best and the overall quality is 
not very good. The other bucket is much heavier and has a large 
copper rivet for the mounting ring spring bracket.

British Car Specialists had one that was similar to the heavy gauge 
one; Lucas F 700 MK VIII with PN 1384-48A. Incidentally, I can not 
find any reference to the headlight bucket in my parts manual so I 
don't have an Austin-Healey PN.

You are right that I could use both on the car but I want things to 
match and to correct items that I can for a FO (future owner).

John

At 09:22 AM 4/5/2011 -0400, you wrote:
>Wow,  I think your looking for someone with a really old Lucas parts 
>guide for this answer, good luck. Considering its such a small part 
>of the bucket rim that really shows,
>I think your gonna be OK here with either bucket.
>Mark
>----- Original Message ----- From: "john spaur" <jmsdarch at sbcglobal.net>
>>I was cleaning my head light buckets and noticed that I have two 
>>different ones; "Lucas F700 MKX" and Lucas F700 MKIX" the latter is 
>>heavier metal.