In a rather embarassing discovery since my initial post, I've taken another
CLOSER look (my bonnet is up, making the lenses difficult to see) and
discovered that my lenses are, in fact, the amber/white combo.
Very embarrassed by this. My apologies for the wild goose chase!
Jeff in San Diego
'67 RHD Spitfire Mk3 "Mrs. Jones"
http://www.ohms.com/spitfire/spitfire.shtml
----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Mace <amace@unix2.nysed.gov>
To: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>
Cc: Jeff McNeal <jmcneal@ohms.com>; Spitfire List <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 5:39 PM
Subject: Re: Question about lens colors
>
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Joe Curry wrote:
>
> > From all I can tell, the Mk3 has two piece lenses (White and amber) all
> > the way up through '69.
>
> See my previous post; the change to all-amber (still two-piece lens for
> two-bulb lamp base) was for 1969 models.
>
> > In '70 they changed to the all amber ones (at
> > least for the US models). I think the ones for the rest of the world
> > remained unchanged through the entire Mk3 production.
>
> For the rest of the world, probably so. But all the 1970 US-spec models I
> ever dealt with had the same single-bulb lamp with amber one-piece lens
> that was used on the later US-spec Spitfire MkIV and 1500. Sorry, I'd be
> happy to quote lamp model numbers, but it's already about -20 here and
> dropping, and I've no desire to "stroll" out to the barn tonight! :-)
>
> Jeff, I still think that the lenses on your RHD Mk3 are correct for your
> car and the market for which it was intended originally.
>
> --Andy
>
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