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Old 02-02-2018, 08:52 AM   #1
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Default Re: How many RIGHT HAND DRIVE 32 Cabriolets exist

Maybe Duece Addict or you tiger1000
Can speak about the fender marker lights, it appears from your car tiger & the "old" photo's the marker lights "look" as if the cowl lights (Here in the US) were moved to the fender and turned vertical....is this the case??? And in the later pictures of your car, Tiger, they were changed for more aerodynamic ones??? I assume that was changed and the older ones were "factory" lights??? Or where there different suppliers for such???

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Maybe Duece Addict or you tiger1000
Can speak about the fender marker lights, it appears from your car tiger & the "old" photo's the marker lights "look" as if the cowl lights (Here in the US) were moved to the fender and turned vertical....is this the case??? And in the later pictures of your car, Tiger, they were changed for more aerodynamic ones??? I assume that was changed and the older ones were "factory" lights??? Or where there different suppliers for such???

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No Robert, they are very different. Have attached a couple of pics to show but UK sidelights are smaller than US cowl lights and have a totally different mounting. They too have flatter lenses that mirror the UK headlamp glass which again is different to the US counterpart (both in the pattern and the moulding which is on the outside on UK versus inside on US as pic below).
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Old 02-02-2018, 10:38 AM   #3
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Default Re: How many RIGHT HAND DRIVE 32 Cabriolets exist

To add to that we also had variants - some with chromed steel bowls and rims, some that were all stainless and a commercial version with black painted steel bowls and either painted rims or polished stainless. Even then there were different lenses too such as the commercial ones in pics below!
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