Tear drop rear light position......

I'll measure mine today

Thanks for your help.

Are the outlines of the teardrop lights not visible in the graphic you posted? I think I see them there.

Sharp eyes!

For sure they are there, but they don't have any point that appears to share the same measurement. I have read the thread that this image originates from and it is in relation to guys looking to either restore their original cars to factory specification or to back date them. The image is made up of one being over-layed on another to give reference to the light position, unfortunately though due to the thread being about the Bee hive position nobody made mention of the tear drop measurement.

How did they not know I'd need this information years after the image was made?!?!?!? 

So....does anybody have the measurement for the tear drop lights??  

John:

I forget - Where are you located??

Did all this on a pic I took today and THEN saw that you wanted it Metric!!

Here you go, from my CMC, carefully researched back in the mid-1990's when I built it (CMC put tail light locators right into the molded fiberglass, so if they're off it's CMC's fault!)

And for those of you lurkers who haven't yet converted to the same measurement system as the rest of the World, here it is in English units:

Please excuse the greasy body - I'm still putting Pearl back together.  Last Spring was way too cold out there, now it's Summer and way too hot.  I can't win, but we're getting pretty close.

Good Luck, John!!

Gordon - you are awesome, my brutha! Thanks for sharing that tech tip. 

Daaang. Double what Jim said.  You're a smart dude, Gordon.  Glad we have you as a resource!

John gets perfect info like the rest of us us at one time or another.

According to G's measurements, the teardrops are centered about 3 cm lower than the beehives. 

In the pic at the top of this thread I'd say it's more like half that. But don't mind me. I tend to measure twice and then eye it in once.

Gordon,

Thank you so much for the reply, that is exactly what I wanted and more. I didn't specify whether it had to be in imperial or metric but you have gone the extra mile and done it in both. Thank you again for your help it's made the next step so much easier for me and for many 356 replica builders in the future when they Google (Other search engines are available ) where to mount the rear lights on their new projects. 

I am located in Warwickshire, England so I also have the same weather issues as yourself...just without the being too hot part!

Thank you again and to all those that have taken the time to reply. A great community and one that I hope to become part of.

John:  You're more than welcome.  It's not a big deal to go out to the shop and measure stuff, especially when the car has been up on jack stands since March.  Keep asking questions - I finished mine (well, it's never quite finished, is it?) in 2000 after working on it for seven years so helping others like you is simply payback.

Haven't gotten into Warwickshire all that much - one trip to Birmingham to visit a data center and shake hands with a bunch of VP's and that was about it.  Flew out that evening to Cork, Ireland, where my company center was, although I've been retired since 2001. 

Here in Grafton, Massachusetts, we're close to Leicester (where my daughter lives), Worcester, Shrewsbury, North and South Hampton - all those places that seem like home to you.  We even pronounce them correctly!!

Keep us in the info loop as your build progresses.  We all can help a lot and we're a very large (and international) group of everything from gas-only owners to complete builders.

Someday, I swear I'm gonna get over to the Isles again, just to visit a bunch of Speedstah guys in England, Scotland and Ireland - maybe do the Goodwood show and all that!

All the best,  gn

BTW:  Currently 32 degrees C and heavy rain in Grafton at 7:41 pm.  Seems more like Brittany than "New England"!

Just to update Gordon's first drawing, those dimensions all need a ZERO added to them.. Eg: the centerline down from the lip is NOT 29.21 mm's, it's PROBABLY 290.21 mm's, or 29.21 cm's.. as are all the others.

;-)

Well, you know.......Metric Measurements have never been America's strong suit, especially here in New England.  

It looked good to me, thinking centimeters, but then anything below a cm to me is too small to see.  

All good.

Cant recall where I found this info, measuring from the bottom edge is risky, many various speedsters molds out there. Use this info in conjunction with Gordon's dimensions.