[Healeys] Lucas Reflectors

[john harper]

Robert

Red reflectors are still mandatory in the UK.

For details, please see

https://drivingtheory.rayapp.co.uk/blog/article-rules-for-the-use-of-reflective-elements-on-the-car
.

All the best

On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 at 14:03, Robert Markovich via Healeys <
healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:

> Thanks for the kind words! I do know that regulations (I think in the UK)
> prohibited covering the reflectors starting sometime in 1960. So they could
> have used any leftover Dagmars up until then. In some cases, according to
> Bill Piggott’s book on the Healey Sixes, dealers simply removed the bullet
> lens over the reflector, retaining the wider bezel.
>
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>
> On Monday, March 10, 2025, 10:18 PM, m.g.sharp at sympatico.ca <
> m.g.sharp at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> Robert, your car is beautiful, simply beautiful!  Mike – this may provide
> some indication of a change point of sorts.  My car has a build date of
> October 1959, very close to Robert’s, and my car also has the 100-6 horn
> button.  Alas, my car has the flat reflectors as I posted this morning, not
> the beautifully pointed Dagmars.  I wonder if there was a period of
> “whatever was handy in the parts bin” in late ‘59/early ’60 regarding
> reflectors?
>
>
>
> *From:* Healeys <healeys-bounces at autox.team.net> *On Behalf Of *Robert
> Markovich via Healeys
> *Sent:* March 10, 2025 4:50 PM
> *To:* Michael Salter <michaelsalter at gmail.com>; healeys at autox.team.net;
> gradea1 at charter.net
> *Subject:* Re: [Healeys] Lucas Reflectors
>
>
>
> Regarding the now-hard-to-find "Dagmars" rear reflectors, they were
> originally made in three colors: red, orange, and clear (I've seen all
> three original items on the cars). And while they really are a 100-6 item
> nearly exclusively, at least a few early 3000s (including my current
> Healey) had them. Some, like mine *built 12/59), also retained the 100-6
> horn-button flash. And I wouldn't be surprised if a couple had the peaked
> bonnet and even a 100-6 grille flash, as the 3000 was originally meant
> simply as an improvement, not a brand-new model. [image: Inline image]
>
>
>
> On Monday, March 10, 2025, 04:07:52 PM EDT, Hank Leach via Healeys <
> healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> Lets not forget *Dagmar.*..only found on the early 100-6 and named for
> her "pointy"
> shape. Also, I believe some lenses (European) were orange rather than red.
> There were a few repro styles but Lucas did not make the style for the 100
> BN2 (see sheet attached) Probably a Wilmot Breeden issue.
> Hank--------------------
>
> From: "Michael Salter" <michaelsalter at gmail.com>
> To: <healeys at autox.team.net>
> Sent: March 10, 2025 at 8:32 AM PDT
> Subject: [Healeys] Lucas Reflectors
>
>
> I'm working on a Concours Guidelines update about reflectors and would
> appreciate some help.
>
> I  have these 3 examples.
>
>
>
> 1. This type has a grooved rubber back allowing it to be inserted into a
> hole in the plinth pressed into the rear shroud of earlier 6 cylinder cars.
>
> 2. This is a type that I don't know about.  It appears to require an outer
> lens (probably the colical type) BUT it has a 10/32 thread sticking out the
> back such as the later 100 type did.
>
> 3. This type has the same back side as #1 but the front looks to me to be
> of the type fitted to the plinth on the later 100's.
>
>
>
> I suspect that #s 2 and 3 are not Healey but am open to being corrected.
>
>
>
> M
>
>
>
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