Cars that share rear lights

[DickyC]

Vanin said:

What was used on the rear of the Aston DB2s and 2/4s?

From memory, the DB2 and early DB2/4 had standard Lucas round lights but the 2/4 MkIII shared the 'church window' type with the early DB4, the DB4GT, the Peerless, some Bentleys and the Humber Snipe. The Humber had different lenses; white and red instead of amber and red.

I should check really, shouldn't I?

[timsev]

laters said:

johnnymaestro said:

Lotus 7 S4



Reliant Scimitar Se5a

That's a Scimitar SE5 not SE5a. The 5a had the reversing lights built into the light unit.
SE5 lights are from a Hillman hunter

Edited by laters on Saturday 18th July 19:33

Well spotted the 5 not 5A, 5A lights moved the reverse lights into the cluster.



"Borrowed" from here, Aston Martin v8!



You will find multiple examples of this
from small volume UK manufactures as they were all raiding the big boys part bins. Just surprises me Reliant went to Aston for this bit, but suspect it was also used elsewhere?

[CO2000]

Lotus Europa (original) & E Type (So I was told)

[soxboy]

CO2000 said:

Lotus Europa (original) & E Type (So I was told)

Yes, Europa and Elan +2 used E-type S2 tail lamps.

[rjwooll]

I heard from a reliable source that the low volume UK vehicle manufacturers formed an informal association in order to source components - hence many of the same parts crop up in a variety of cars.

Regarding the Scimitar SE5a and on rear lights, these were also used on the Lotus Elite and Eclat series 1.

[JakeT]

Okay it's front lights but...

Some MAN Coach and the E46 3 series share front lights.

[rossybee]

huwp said:

I believe the rear lights from the Caterham 7 are essentially trailer lights.

Sprite caravan to be precise

[darronwall]

Anyone mentioned a Morris minor and a Dalek?

[SimonTheSailor]

Ginetta rears -



Chevette rears -

[Strudul]

Not factory, but there's a 350Z with 991 rear lights

[DoctorX]

Strudul said:

Not factory, but there's a 350Z with 991 rear lights

Why the Porsche badge? Some strange people about.

[Strudul]

DoctorX said:

Why the Porsche badge? Some strange people about.

Probably cos it's (partly) a Porsche bumper.

There's a Maserati badge on the front too

[SimonTheSailor]

This thread is awesomely geeky !!

[Pistom]

Bristol 603 - Talbot Tagora. Oh sorry, it's the headlights they share but someone mentioned geeky so always good to drop a Tagora in.

[DoctorX]

Strudul said:

DoctorX said:

Why the Porsche badge? Some strange people about.

Probably cos it's (partly) a Porsche bumper.

There's a Maserati badge on the front too

Badges aside, that’s not bad apart from all the rivets. Not really sure why you’d want that though.

[SimonTheSailor]

Pistom said:

Bristol 603 - Talbot Tagora. Oh sorry, it's the headlights they share but someone mentioned geeky so always good to drop a Tagora in.

A friend used one as a tow car to tow some of his racers, think it was an upgrade from the Chryslers he used for a while !!

[Lotobear]

Early Elan + 2 - shared Carello rear lights with the Alfa Gulia Coupe

Later Elan +2 - shared rear lights with V12 E Type

[swisstoni]

In many cases, the donor cars are now much rarer than the fancy recipients.

[MorganP104]

Gonna need to go "full beard" for this one. Here goes...

MAN coaches have been known to use BMW 3-Series E46 headlights.





Deep breath... More beardage incoming. Earlier MAN coaches used pre-facelift E46 headlights.





And... Relax. #

ETA: I see another poster mentioned this a page or so back. I read the first seven pages, and thought I'd be safe!

Edited by MorganP104 on Saturday 13th January 21:00

[williamp]

As weve gone away from rear lights onto all lights, here are mk1 ford focus indicators