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Remember when headlights were round, oblong, even square or just occasionally "fish bowl" or "clam shell"...

Well as the Jam may have said "This is the modern world"
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Back in the late 50's Chevrolet we toying with fitting fluorescent tubes in the leading edge of the bonnet of the Impala/Biscayne. If you look at the front end of a '59 you can sort of understand it - but not how it got round US lighting regs (some states had only just legalised "quad" headlights (that's dual/twin to us) - & sealed beams were still mandatory!)
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wonder what this will look like when its lit up at night?
wonder what this will look like when its lit up at night?
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This little vid shows you! Not quite the whole surround lighting I expected. Looks like they have gone to town if you stick with the vid with their lighting. Yes even party mode to rock to the sound system with a bit of internal lighting synchro-ed to the beat!

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The thread in a nutshell<br />Lucas P700 tripods on the right<br />&quot;modern&quot; tripods on the left!
The thread in a nutshell
Lucas P700 tripods on the right
"modern" tripods on the left!
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Do you know your lights from the 1950's
big headlights and tiny tail lights
big headlights and tiny tail lights

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I find old vehicle lighting most attractive and visually pleasing... Can't say the same for the modern stuff...
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ford prefect jammed against fence
ford prefect jammed against fence
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Well the front end is going in the I-Spy an Ugly SUV thread, but oh dear this hits the second mentioned category of the Lights Interesting and Awful thread (for me)
Could do better Bentley!
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That almost looks like a double decker, awful!!
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Looks like it was designed by Americans. Takes the world ugly prize.
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Hideous... Those styling dept. redundancies are really starting to hurt!

Or was it styled over the 'phone?

Or a quick rush job in the pub on the back of a beer mat just before last orders?
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After last months fairly sparse set of 70reg spots, must have seen 4 or 5 this morning. Of various descriptions. Mostly the ubiquitous SUV....Mercedes and MG and Volvo, and this, what you could call a pumped-up Golf, or a smaller SUV...yes the room 101 contender for a duff marketing name the whatever-cross or the cross-whatever.

This one is the VW T Cross, and scrapes into the interesting/awful lights thread. It caught my eye because it looked clean and white, and there was some kind of joined-up symmetry. I still don't know which side of the scale to put the lights in but seeing as I bothered to take a picture of it I'll go for marginally interesing, and may even look good at night!

What do you think :?:
Awful&lt;------------------------^--------------&gt;interesting<br />                            VW T-Cross
Awful<------------------------^-------------->interesting
VW T-Cross


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NewcastleFalcon wrote: 08 Oct 2020, 21:19 Image
Very "morning after the night before" . . . or the hung-over/radioactive sheep from Steve Bell's "If..." strip :shock:
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Bog Standard Tesla model 3 :?:
Awful&lt;----------------^---------------------&gt;Interesting<br />Tesla Model 3 marginally awful
Awful<----------------^--------------------->Interesting
Tesla Model 3 marginally awful
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There is no doubt in my mind that the availability of LEDs and their versatility has brought about a large number of 'orrible designs. Bring back acetylene, that's what I say!! :lol:
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