rear lamps?
rear lamps?
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michaelshawbond

Original Poster:

2 posts

233 months

Saturday 19th May 2007
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Can anyone advise where I might find replacement rear light covers for a 1989 S3 (both sides)? Were they from the Ford Escort?
Cheers!

jed-s

660 posts

245 months

Saturday 19th May 2007
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Yep - Escort Mk4. Best place to look seems to be ebay. Often available for under a tenner a pair plus postage and that is in excellent nick.

tubbystu

3,846 posts

289 months

Saturday 19th May 2007
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jed-s said:
Yep - Escort Mk4.


And they are inverted - upside down left fits right and vica versa

pies

13,116 posts

285 months

Saturday 19th May 2007
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tubbystu said:
jed-s said:
Yep - Escort Mk4.


And they are inverted - upside down left fits right and vica versa


Nope, urban legend

GreenV8S

31,017 posts

313 months

Saturday 19th May 2007
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jed-s said:
Yep - Escort Mk4.


yes

Ironically, when the V8S was rear-ended by a Mk4 Escort a few years ago, the only visible damage to the V8S was a broken tail light and the only part of the Escort that seemed to have survived intact was, you guess it, the tail light. Seriously, the TVR bodywork all sprang out so that at first glance it looked fine, and the Escort impaled itself on the TVR exhaust pipe splitting the radiator, folding the bonnet up, creasing the front wings and breaking all the glass. It really did look strange with the Escort very obviously written off and apparently without so much as scratching the TVR.

Clarenceboddiger

1,398 posts

244 months

Sunday 20th May 2007
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pies said:
tubbystu said:
jed-s said:
Yep - Escort Mk4.


And they are inverted - upside down left fits right and vica versa


Nope, urban legend

You know I had a relative who told me that the first time he saw the TVR, but I have just checked out of interest and on the TVR the Ford logo and Numbers on the lenses are the correct way up, so you would imagine, as you say, that Left is Left after all.

gentleman geoff

1,058 posts

241 months

Monday 21st May 2007
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I think this myth has probably come about because the Griffith rear lights are mounted upside down (compared to the Vauxhall donor car).

barkychoc

7,848 posts

233 months

Monday 21st May 2007
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Back to rear lights again, there's quite a bit in this thread.

www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&t=384562

Rower

1,381 posts

295 months

Tuesday 22nd May 2007
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I have a pair you can have , they are original ford parts I only changed them to put on some smoked units . I am in SW London if you want to collect or I can post them at your expense , mail me thro my profile.

guy

tinks v8S

2,153 posts

237 months

Thursday 24th May 2007
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do you still want a set
i am at a show sunday
smocked £15.00 a pair where r u
show in manchester area