[Spridgets] Lowest Sprite Vin

rrengineer @dslextreme.com rrengineer at dslextreme.com
Sun Oct 26 00:45:14 MDT 2008


Wow! I'm really getting an education here. Thanks Jim.
Mike

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:21 PM, Jim Johnson <bmwwxman at gmail.com> wrote:

> As someone mentioned, all English cars had them in the 40s through 60s. Its
> a left over from the Blitz. When I lived in England in the 60s many cars
> still drove without headlights at night. They'd got into that habit during
> the war and it just continued. In fact, most cars and motorcycles of the
> 50s
> and 60s in Europe that I remember had those lights. You used to park along
> a
> street at night and leave those lights on overnight. My old 1946 MG TC had
> a
> little light that hung off the corner of the windscreen and plugged into
> the
> cigar lighter (aftermarket!). My Norton had a small bulb in both the
> headlamp and the tail lamp which turned on with a special ignition switch
> position. Just a slight glow really. Not much light at all. My recently
> restored 1964 BMW R60/2 also has that switch position and special little
> bulbs.I was never really sure what these lights were for but "when in
> Rome"....  Perhaps some of our Brit buddies can enlighten...
>
> Cheers!!
> Jim
>
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Frank Clarici <spritenut at comcast.net
> >wrote:
>
> > rrengineer @dslextreme.com wrote:
> >
> >> Anyone know what the lowest Sprite vin number car is in the US, in
> >> existence?  Another thing, was there anything special about the
> headlights
> >> imported on the very first Bugeyes sent to the US?  The head light on
> the
> >> Bugeye in quest are Lucas bulbs, but appear to have a small parking
> light
> >> inside the bulb below the light element.  It's like a smaller bulb in a
> >> round hole.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > I have those headlamps in a couple of my Sprites but I picked them up
> when
> > I was over in England.
> > City lights as they are called over here. Just a small bulb like a
> parking
> > lamp inside the headlamp bulb.
> > As for one of the lowest cars, Alan Fisher has #5?? Maybe even 50? I know
> > it's very low.
> >
> > --
> > Frank Clarici
> > Toms River, NJ
> >
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> Jim
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