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Lucas 464A - best interior reflector colour?

tpickering
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Location: Stratham Western Australia

Re: Lucas 464A - best interior reflector colour?

Post by tpickering »

Great day here in WA Peter
Bright and sunny and 18 degrees :D

Vulgalour
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Location: Kent

Re: Lucas 464A - best interior reflector colour?

Post by Vulgalour »

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Haven't had time to wire these up yet, hoping to do that this weekend. Have had enough time to paint one of them with mirror chrome enamel. It's a marked difference between the two, as you can see above. However, this is with light shining from outside in, rather than light shining from inside out so all I can really say so far is that the chrome is much better at making the reflector parts of the light lenses work than the factory flat white.

It's possibly also worth noting that the car did come to us with mismatched rear lenses, two as above, and one that had vertical ribbed glass with no in built reflector. The assumption here is that the ribbed lens is the original since the car has auxilliary reflectors screwed onto the bootlid and these non-ribbed lenses are a later replacement. We'll be using the later lenses as they're in better condition and it's no bad thing having extra reflectors on the back.

In the interest of fairness, I took two photographs with the light units swapped so its clear that it's not a trick of the light direction on them that's causing one to look brighter. It's interesting that the factory flat white interior makes the lens reflect more light back while the chrome interior doesn't, I'm not really sure why that would be since both lenses are identical. I've also thoroughly cleaned both units since the first photos were taken and they came up remarkably well, they'll end up showing up the rest of the car!

Brian-H
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Re: Lucas 464A - best interior reflector colour?

Post by Brian-H »

Maybe swap the lenses over as well ?

Vulgalour
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Re: Lucas 464A - best interior reflector colour?

Post by Vulgalour »

I did think of that and tried it off camera, the result is the same which is why I didn't photograph it.

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