Cibie Airport 35 glass

[mark387mw]

I've now got my TVR 350i nearly registered BUT it failed compliance on two counts. I need a high level brake light and a new glass lens to replace the broken glass in one of the lights. I can remove both of the lights completely for it to pass the compliance, but would prefer to fit an unbroken glass. I don't suppose anyone has one spare that could be bought and shipped cheaply to Palmy North?

[Esprit]

On the high-stop thing, here's a tip. Mount one on "permanently" for the compliance test and then remove it directly afterwards, DON'T have it on for the first time you take it to a WOF station, that way it'll drop out of the system for requiring one. It's ridiculous that they require high-stops on EVERYTHING, especially classic roadsters where they were never designed to have them. The usual solution is to put one of those ugly brake-light pods on top of the bootlid, but doing this on an Austin Healey or E-Type Jaguar is CRIMINAL.

When we complianced our E-Type, we certified the car without the roof (no roof/frame even fitted) We wired up a high-stop brake light on a fixed stalk that mounted in an existing hole on the rear bulkhead. We said that the car was a roadster and we weren't getting a soft-top for it and that we'd be using a removable hard-top so we had to mount the high-stop in this manner so that it shone through the rear glass with the hardtop but remained in place when the hardtop was removed. It passed, the stop light was then removed and we did our first WOF without it... from now on it should never need one again.

Just a helpful loophole if you don't want to make the rear end of your car look manky and cheap with a tacked-on brake light