After I moved SC850 into our other shed today, my old man pointed out that he thought "the head lights are too big for the car" and "5 inch lenses would look better than the 7 inch ones".

I would like to prove to him that he is VERY wrong..... but maybe there are people on here that have seen a 5 inch light conversion on a mini that they liked???? I cant say i've seen it done.

NOTE- I am quite happy with the 7's and will not do a conversion to 5's.

I have seen morries with the head light ring painted to match the car.... and thought YUCK!!

But.....any opinions?

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[NATHAN] -- Sold everything mini related and am back in big beautiful BMWs

Not exactly a conversion, more like an addition.


5" - nah - pass

Thats.... not too bad, really. Here's ANOTHER improved clubby....






But I'm talking about ROUNDIES with 5 inch HEADLIGHTS.

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[NATHAN] -- Sold everything mini related and am back in big beautiful BMWs

some factory built hybrid minis (roundies) had square headlights.. I tryed a while back to start a thread on the hybrid subject but it bombed. still think its a worthy sticky subject especially for the younger members who may not have seen the low volume production mini specials for those who dont know , there are plenty of them. there may even be a site dedicated to them... would be interesting... anyone got a link??????/
also was that clubby a reasonably recent adaption or a preminition of things to come??
spoooky

the 'proper/original' mini sprint.... http://www.minimarcos.org.uk has a wealth of information about the specials, sourced this pic from there

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did I tell you that I won a trophy?

That's F'ugly... real Minis all have 7" lights! Preferably halogen, with a nice relay added..

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

I dunno Kev, Chopped Roof, seamless, Minilites.. Ok, the headlights are ugly, but.....

J

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Car's OK, I was talking about the headlights..
Still rather have a Broadspeed though!

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

broadspeeds are my favouritest.... there's a mob in england who will mod a shell for GBP7k.....

the sprint has a chopped body too

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did I tell you that I won a trophy?

These cars were chopped in the middle of the body as well as the roof pillars. The square lights were fitted to get around the minimum headlight height regs in some countries. By making the lights smaller, the centre point of the lights is moved upwards on the guards.

The Cagiva Mokes (Portugal) built for Italian spec had 5" headlights for the same reason.

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Brett Nicholson
Greendale (near Ballan) VIC.
1971 Morris Mini Moke
1966 Austin Mini
1965 Morris Mini Traveller
1973 LR Series 3 88
2007 LR Freelander 2

yep thats the square eye'd thingo takes a lot of getting used to, but its pretty snazzy...
think the art of body chopping is called sectioning.. then theres channeling (which isnt something a psychic does..unless he she moonlights as a pannelbeater.. frenching lights used to be a good look..perhaps poeee" the retro king" should be reading this .

Sectioning = chopping a chunk out of the middle.
Channeling = dropping the whole body lower over the floor pan to lower the body without lowering the suspension.

Either is very hard!!!

I prefer the big Mercedes light conversions over the square units myself. Suits the shape of the guards better.

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Brett Nicholson
Greendale (near Ballan) VIC.
1971 Morris Mini Moke
1966 Austin Mini
1965 Morris Mini Traveller
1973 LR Series 3 88
2007 LR Freelander 2

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David L


My greatest fear in life is that when I die my wife will sell my Mini and tools for the price I told her I paid for them!

I like that Italian!!

(The innocenti is not bad either!)

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Brett Nicholson
Greendale (near Ballan) VIC.
1971 Morris Mini Moke
1966 Austin Mini
1965 Morris Mini Traveller
1973 LR Series 3 88
2007 LR Freelander 2

Roofline at back looks like a Hillman Imp..
Nope sorry I've had my Italian Love Affair.... 20+ years of Fiats...

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.