Shite Taillamp (Love/Hate)

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Inverted Hockey Sticks

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[PaykanHunter]

3 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

These were used on another car, weren't they? A Maserati perhaps?,,, 

[Captain Mainwaring]

These Rubbolite Model 80s were ubiquitous at one time.

[Timewaster]

6 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Inverted Hockey Sticks

I was wondering what they would be from, TVR generally reuse lamps from other cars, no?

Then I spot that they are probably Defender tail lights under a £5 piece of black perspex, and I like that.

I'm going to stick my neck out and say I think SMs are bloody ugly.

 

[tooSavvy]

F Type.... 

 

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[Timewaster]

The strange square tail lights fitted to the Allegro 3 (the roundiest car this side of an Outspan Mini).

I quite liked them at the time, but now I wonder what they were thinking.

Of all the problems the Allegro had, I don't think the tail lights were the issue.

Incidentally I'd be interested to see what kind of caravan they were planning to tow with that?

[tooSavvy]

Hillman Imp....

 

1st style = metal base/screwed on

 

Beancounters = push on! 🙄

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[jon.k]

Love 

 

Hate

The colour of these early ones just looks weird to me.

Fine again:

[Sigmund Fraud]

Small, but perfectly formed !

[Jerzy Woking]

One I hate

When I commuted into London, if I came up behind one, it would fill me with irrational anger. I either had to overtake, or drop back and let it get out of site.

My anger is raised even by seeing this photo of the runway lights.I'd like to smash everyone with a baseball bat.

Others, such as used on Triumphs don't bother me though.

[ProgRocker]

[brandersnatch]

28 minutes ago, Jerzy Woking said:

One I hate

When I commuted into London, if I came up behind one, it would fill me with irrational anger. I either had to overtake, or drop back and let it get out of site.

My anger is raised even by seeing this photo of the runway lights.I'd like to smash everyone with a baseball bat.

Others, such as used on Triumphs don't bother me though.

I can remember thinking how lazy the designers had been and that maybe they were due for an early finish that day. 

[MiniMinorMk3]

10 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

 

3 hours ago, tooSavvy said:

Hillman Imp....

 

 

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Imps just used something from the Lucas catalogue.

[adw1977]

 

12 hours ago, adw1977 said:

Hockey stick!

It all went downhill with the facelift:

Not a bad design, but they cheapened it by using the existing rear quarter panel with a crappy blanking piece added to cover the gap where the previous lights went.

[Marina door handles]

I do like a Sierra rear lamp, just such a nice clean crisp shape, makes little difference whether early hatch or later sapphire to my eyes......

Even like them when fitted to a Notasierra! 

 

 

 

 

[Missy Charm]

Hard to find a photo, but who doesn't love a tail-blazer?  Seem to remember all manner of stuff like the above being screwed to hatchback boot-lids in the eighties and nineties.  

The RGA one appears to have been inspired by the various Capri bodykits that did the rounds back then.

[Datsuncog]

Viva HC.

Love 'em.

[PhilA]

21 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Viva HC.

Love 'em.

Art imitates, copies, steals?

[DavidB]

+1 on Hillman Avenger.

 

One of these passed me a few years ago on the motorway and was genuinely scared:

[vulgalour]

Good old horseshoe magnets on the Picasso.

[chaseracer]

15 minutes ago, vulgalour said:

...horseshoe magnets...

The dent in my forehead is from an interface with one of those.  Long story...

[chaseracer]

10 hours ago, PaykanHunter said:

These were used on another car, weren't they? A Maserati perhaps?,,, 

Kyalami.

[MiniMinorMk3]

8 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

Kyalami.

Lancia Gamma Coupe looks similar