What have you done today with your Austin Seven

[Ruairidh Dunford]

You raise a good point Tony.

I rarely drive at night in the Sevens these days, not because I cannot see, more that I fear not being seen.

Rear lights on a Seven are closer together than a modern, this makes the car appear further away from behind. I love driving A7s but my Volvo is my car of choice, at night.

[Austin in the Shed]

I tried the projector lights today  which replaced the 24 watt quartz halogen bulbs 

Whose  and which bulbs did you use Dave ?

[Dave Mann]

Double dipper Pro FC2A from Classic Dynamo & Regulator Conversions which have the Ba 20d base to fit the Lucas Graves reflectors used on RN saloons which have a clear distance from the glass to bulb contacts of 3" which will accommodate the light overall length of 27/8".

[Steve kay]

What I have done today is read the Grey mag and look at the forum. Both places dealing with how to be very sensible indeed and install LED lights. Another thing I did today was to be very irritated by MSUK who have rather belatedly come to their senses and removed the ban on the use of LEDs. Thus some of us could have entered the Measham after all. One side effect is Measham entrants knowing that they could not buy and fit LEDs before scruting on Saturday are now ringing round trying to borrow sets of lights to help them see their way through the night.

[Alan]

That’s progress. When I was doing the Measham you just had to eat loads of carrots

[Ivor Hawkins]

I keep my night driving in the Seven to the lanes, when it comes to A roads I use the Alfa Romeo, but the lights aren’t that much better than the Seven!

[Mike Costigan]

That’s progress. When I was doing the Measham you just had to eat loads of carrots

I thought I was cheating when I used a then-modern halogen foglamp which enabled me to keep my speed (well, some of it) up when others were struggling at walking pace because of the fog that year.

[Steve kay]

Excuse me, driver 27, what is that dubious object on the luggage rack.
Mr Scrutineer, that is not illegal ballast, it is a sack of carrots.
A sack of carrots?
Indeed, we have carefully checked the regs, and nowhere does it state that carrots are banned. Anyway, if we ever get to the finish, we will have probably have eaten all the carrots.

Mike, waking pace, thick fog, are you sure that you were not just trapped behind a Trojan?

[Dave Mann]

That's the reason I fitted a rear light board to our car which I see was just 30 years ago Ruairidh    

[Mike Costigan]

Mike, walking pace, thick fog, are you sure that you were not just trapped behind a Trojan?

No, it was a Rolls Royce 20hp!