Apart from a flasher can for the new lights that I have installed the car is basically good to go for now, though it does need some areas touched up paint wise in the near future.
The new lights are a pair of front parking / indicator light that were briefly fitted to some of the early 60's cars, between the old single use parking light from the Series 2 and the parking / indicator jobbies that i had on the car previously from the later series 1000's. It's a much better look and closer to how the car is supposed to look, so that is a good thing. The reason for not installing the earlier Series 2 lights is that they are singular parking lights only and it is much tidier to have the new ones as they are parking/indicator in one unit and they can fit an LED "bulb" so that is even better.
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| Installing the "new" guard and the new LED powered side lights |
Everything went back together fairly well and only required a light degree of swearing and cursing to come together properly. The "new" guard is a much better fit, being and original part, that the other guard which is a pattern part like the one that got crunched. Everything just lines up better with it and seems to sit much more "properly". Thankfully the bumper is not too out of square, so all the previous work done wasn't totally a waste.
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Everything lines up better and the new lights look much more in keeping.
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| New sidelights look so much better than these old ones |
The concerns over the colour match with the new paint seem to have been unfounded, as even though the colour in the tin looks much darker that the old colour, once on the car it is so much closer than was expected. Only real problem is that it really shows up the rims that are still in the old eye matched colour that was way too green.
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| The rims are now very obviously the wrong colour |
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