It never occurred to me that they'd retract THAT way! I had a mental image
of them rotating down into the bonnet with a flat cover matching the
surrounding bodywork, like on most cars that have 'em. That might be pretty
cool, but pointing straight up in the air like that?!? Glad they decided to
save a few bob.
Rick
At 11:15 PM 6/18/01 -0700, Gerard Chateauvieux wrote:
>John Carey has a photo of the prototype from one of the Healey books.
>http://ourworld.cs.com/_ht_a/JCareyPage/Gallery/History7.jpg
>I think you'll agree, the change to fixed position lights was for the
>better. It looks more like a salamander than frogeye/bugeye and just doest
>have the charm.
>Gerard
>
>At 8:42 PM -0700 6/18/01, Rick Snover wrote:
> >I've read that the Sprite's original design called for retractrable
> >headlights, but they were dropped to cut costs, resulting in our beloved
> >Bug-eyed car. Has anyone ever seen a successful installation of actual
> >retractable headlights on a Sprite? What car did the mechanism come from?
> >How difficult was the installation? How'd it look?
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