Sunday, 5 September 2010

Parts - Rear lights and Jack Mounts

As work progresses on the Streamliner we have been putting together an inventory of the parts, some bits are proving more tricky than others to source but thankfully  a lot of the parts appear to have been borrowed from other Healey's both big and small.

All the exterior lights are Lucas, the rear lights on the majority of the original streamliners consisted of four L962 stop and tail lights 2 either side, these lights were used on the late production Healey 3000 and a bunch of other cars including early Land Rovers and are a favourite on Replica Cobra's.

We are going to run two L692 stop and tail lamps and two L691 Single filament Indicators for MOT purposes.

 '65 Sebring Streamliner

Rear lights and Jack Mounts

Unique to the streamliners were the rear jack mounts, these were made from alloy and drilled for weight saving, we had no idea of the scale of these mounts so thankfully back in February my Dad had an opportunity  to take some measurements from Gary Kohs Sebring Streamliner in Detroit, big thanks to Gary for  making this visit possible. From these measurements and photos I managed to make a model of these mounts in foam board and with the help of Dave Owen and his brother we were able to bring these to life in aluminium. Big thanks to Dave and Geoff Owen for their help in making these a reality.



Foam model and the new replica alloy Jack Mount




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