Rich,
Here in the USA, orange turn signals were frowned upon by the gov't
until a certain time. In other countries around the world it was
probably mandated that cars have them. I know that for the home market
MGAs had front turn signals with amber lenses, but here in the USA they
were clear. That same glass behive lense that you are talking about was
used at the rear of MGA 1600s for the turn signal lamps. In fact those
lenses were used on many cars, front and rear. In could be that for
home market and other countries the amber ones were used at the front of
Austin-Healeys also, or at the rear in other makes. It is uncommon to
see anything other than clear lenses on a Healey earlier than phase 2
BJ8s. Even the single light plastic lensed cars seem to have clear. As
there were a lot of safety regulations that went into effect in the USA
for 1968, I would think that maybe that is when we changed over to amber
being allowable.
My personal opinion is that the different color shows up better from the
front when the headlights are on, so I have orange bulbs in my BT7.
Charlie
Richard Kahn wrote:
> I have a phase 1 that has clear bee hive lenses on the front turn lights. The
> PO put yellow-orange bulbs in. ( I'm guessing it was the PO and not original)
> I found two NOS in the box orange lenses at a flee market at a LBC show and
> bought them for $10. It got me thinking, as my BJ8 would have been the last to
> have glass lenses, when where the orange ones used? And what is appropriate
> for my car?
> Thanks,
> Rich Kahn
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