Thread: D-lamps - Chrome or Black

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

Brian

Your quite correct, there are some very silly prices paid for NOS Lucas D lamp lenses on eBay. Have seen in the $50 to $60 dollar mark.

Interestingly the Vintage Car Parts site in the UK advertises replacements for £8.50 plus shipping D amp replacement red lens :: Vintage Car Parts they are specified as "glass" not just "lens" so I am assuming they are not plastic. Don't have a need for one just yet (have some spares) so have never ordered from them. And I do prefer to but from Anthony Pearson of Classic and Vintage Bulbs in Adelaide Page Title if only to support Aussie businesses and to keep the dollars in country.

The other spares that I am interested from the UK are the springs etc which are frequently rusted or missing.

C Ya
Diana

Diana, for Lucas parts go to Kev. Baker KB Classic Parts, Witta, via Maleny. 'phone 07-5494-4221, fax 07-5494-4114. Kev has an enormous range of Lucas and other electrical brand parts. When he moved from Carina to Witta, he took 40 tons of parts up the mountain.

Red glass lenses are sometimes a tinted or painted red, but the expensive one are red glass.

Your transfer is supposed to move tomorrow.

Charlie

Chrome is very hard and difficult to etch , but paint does stick to it Ok. I once had a 1941 Plymouth Army ute.. they had painted over the chrome grill with khaki paint and it lasted for 40 years without coming off ! You could try buffing it with a steel wool pad, as in washing type ...Zinc chromate should work maybe ...

Mike