One of my ambitions is to make the car as road legal as possible. One of the key improvements is adequate Headlights. The headlights I had fitted are of the Lucas pattern and are a nice looking vintage type lamp but the lack light cut-off on dip and possibly blinds oncoming traffic and potentially fails an MoT.
Options
1) Fit some modern aftermarket part
2) Fit a new insert into the existing assembly
3) Get some real A7 headlights
I chose 2) however the options of sealed beam units or otherwise is extremely limited.
I found a Vespa headlight unit which is almost ideal. It has a focused dip beam, has a parking light and with a bit of effort will take a standard (Bosch) motorcycle 12v headlamp bulb.
The adapter tube was turned out of a piece 127mm x 6.3 mm alloy pipe. Metals4you supplied the material at a reasonable price. The tube just fitted my Myford chuck and an afternoon was spent generating swarf.The above image shows the 1930's pattern Lucas spot lamp fitted with a Vespa headlight assembly.
Here is an Index page for the build
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