[Tigers] Lumax driving lights

[genepadgett at comcast.net]

Your mention of driving lights has tweaked my curiosity. I have looked from time to time in the Tiger Archives for information on mounting brackets but not been particularly successful. Do you have the lights made by Lumax for Rootes with"Rootes" in the len's metal center? Or just the regular Lumax lights that have "Lumax" there but are otherwise the same? 

There seems to be two mounting systems out there. Some prior posts in the Archives mention there are brackets that are left hand and right hand specific. I know Lucas made a set of brackets for their own lights that mount the lights straight up from the bumper mounting bolt (after some bends on the way up past the bumper of course). There must be some other brackets, perhaps by Lumax, that move the light somewhat inboard of the bumper mounting bolt location (making them left and right hand specific). Thus they also bend on the way up plus have an offset. If one looks at some of the UK magazine 1960's original road tests of either Tigers or Alpines, the lights on the cars also look like they mount lower than where the Lucas lights end up being. Unfortunately I do not have any of the actual articles, just the odd picture from ebay article sales of road tests to base that on. 

If I may ask, how do your light brackets look to be made and how high do the lights seem to be (say wrt the len's center being at, above or below the grill eyebrow chrome strip directly behind the light)? Any place I could see a picture of the front of your car? 

Thanks, Gene 

----- Original Message -----
From: arado7 at sbcglobal.net 
To: rande at thecia.net 
Cc: tigers at autox.team.net 
Sent: Monday, April 9, 2012 3:31:17 PM 
Subject: Re: [Tigers] my posting to Newbie Mike about modifications 

My Tiger is stock and has Lumax driving lights installed by DPO in 1966. I 
have had request to sell them. gary b9472283 cat 311 

--- On Fri, 4/6/12, rande <rande at thecia.net> wrote: 

From: rande <rande at thecia.net> 
Subject: [Tigers] my posting to Newbie Mike about modifications 
To: tigers at autox.team.net 
Date: Friday, April 6, 2012, 10:56 PM 

Hi, 
Allan Ballard raised a couple of good questions to me about what constitutes 
'stock', and he mentioned LAT 70 wheels, and after I reread my posting, he's 
correct, of course, it did sound like I was labeling those as a 
personalization 
or modeification 
change that would move a concours candidate into another 
class. 
My bad. 

Allan also raised a question about 'period correct' accessories moving a car 
out of stock. By those, I wonder if he meant parts like Nardi or Motolita 
wood 
steering wheels, AMCO wood shift knobs or Blaupunkt radios that one could 
order 
from a catalogue, adapted just for Sunbeams but available for a range of 
other 
cars, too. 

In the end, that's a question for someone like Pat King of STOA or Dave Dunn 
of Pacific Tigers. I can't seem to find the rules for the last concours that 
I helped judge. Still, though, a valid question. 
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