New to me Vintage Speedster

Congrats!. Beautiful car, great color... Enjoy!!! 

Congrats Bruce.

 

Nice to know Andy's car found a good home and is in good hands!

Beautiful car

Good for you, Bruce.  That is one sweet looking car!

Congrats! A real looker.

Great looking VS... Congratulations!  

Nix the hood straps.

 

No. Hood straps are good; just like beehives.

 

 

 

SWEET!  I do like the hood straps too.  Enjoy!

Very nice, very clean!

If you do nix the straps, let me know!  I like them and am considering running them...!

Gonna have to change your avatar now, Bruce.

The only thing that has to go on that car is that curlycue red alternator wire.

Bruce,

Great color,congrats.

Joel

Nice purchase, Bruce.

You hear that, Teby? He's coming for your title of most original looking! Maybe he can claim the East coast and you can claim the West?

Hey can be the Bigie to your TúPác?

For the "most original" car on here, you guys will have to really work to get better than Manny's car over in Africa.  That thing is just amazing.......

Nice car , Bruce. Congrats.

Bruce---I'm sorts partial to Vintage Speedsters anyway but this one is outstanding. Great color and clean as a pin.  LKooking forward to seeing it "in de flesh" at Carlishe.

 

Congrats and enjoy!

That was fast. Bring it over!

Nice, Bruce! Blackie is going to miss her, from the git go, old friend!

 

~WB

I'll agree, a beautiful car.  Classic silver, and very shiny.  How many miles??  I am also, within some limits, in the "authentic look" crowd. I'm not wild about hood straps; OK for a racer, not for a "genuine Speedster".  Just MHO.  I have heard from other sources that Danny P. stopped by and did his magic on the engine.  What all transpired there?  What was the issue, and is now all fixed and running smooth?  Tell all.  

Yup, Danny drove his Spyder down from New York and tweaked the car.  It wasn't running very well - backfiring and had almost no guts going up hill.  He did almost everything he could - rebuilt the Webers, replaced the plugs, timed it, set the valves, etc.  Running MUCH better.  We even had time to attend the local Saturday morning Cars & Coffee with the Spyder and my hot rod and got him out for a sail.  Tomorrow the Speedster makes it's first appearance at the Cars & Coffee.  

     

Replaced the taillight lenses with the orange/red lenses.  The orange is running and headlights and the red is brakes.  Is that the correct way to hook up these lenses?   

Yes, red is brake, always.

Yes...but...

 

Brake lights are always red.

 

But the federal regulations also require red taillamps or taillights (what you are calling running lights).

 

That would normally mean a dual filament bulb (obviously with a dual power lead socket), with the lo intensity filament being the running light, and the other coming on only with the brakes.

 

Rear rurn signals may be red or amber/orange.

 

The federal regulation is long and tedious. But scroll down to pages 74 and75 for a summary.

 

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/C...-vol5-sec571-108.pdf

Bruce I think I have same rear lights as you.  Turn and tail lights amber and red for brake.  I have passed many cops at night and have never been pulled over.  We do have VA state inspections and I do go back to all red for inspection then change back to red and amber.  Amber just looks better with the color of my car.

I had to swap the wiring in my tail lights when I went to the red/amber lenses as it had the brake lights and turn signals sharing the dual filament bulb under the amber part.  I decided I would rather have red brake lights and amber running lights than the other way around.

It all depends on which state you live in. And I don't mean which "Altered State". In California your stop lamps and running lamps that shine to the rear have to be red unless your car was manufactured before 1979 then they can be red or amber.  Turn indicators can be red or amber amber.

 

In Arkansas your tail lights have to be red while your brake and tail lights can be red or amber.

 

https://www.arkansashighways.c...otor%20Veh%2011E.pdf

 

Page 319 and 320.

In FL seems using turn signals is very optional --- so doesn't matter here.  Plus a car never gets inspected in FL.  Some scary vehicles on the roads here!

Wolfgang, you really aren't  in Florida. Where you live is considered L.A. (lower Alabama). If you what to see bad driving try the theme park area in the middle of the state with tourists from who knows where with no idea where they are going in rental cars.

Thanks guys.  I guess I'll leave them as they are.  I like the look of the orange/red lenses, just seems strange to have the orange lens lit all the time.  

I think it's safer with amber tail lights. Mine have been this way ever since I saw George Browns first car which had them this way. It's been a while.

 

~WB

Red and amber tail lights is the way European speedsters were set up.  It does add a little different look to these cars.

Mine are teardrop (European - British) They have the amber as signal on the outside as they can be seen from the rear and the side.

That's the setup I like.

Sweet. Congrats...