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Rab J wrote: Sat Mar 24, 2018 11:35 pm I know all you young guys wont remember it but a long time ago I fitted halogen bulbs which were a revelation compared with the standard bulbs of the time.
I recall replacing the tungsten bulbs with halogen ones on my first car, I can't recall whether I found them a vast improvement but I was much younger then and night vision was very good - tungsten bulbs had pretty much disappeared from new cars sometime during the 80s I believe.

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Or as Michael Caine said in 'The Italian Job' - "Are those quartz iodine bulbs you're putting in there?" :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Rab J wrote: Sat Mar 24, 2018 11:35 pm I know all you young guys wont remember it but a long time ago I fitted halogen bulbs which were a revelation compared with the standard bulbs of the time.
Yes very true - fitted them to my Capri :D :D :D
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"Or as Michael Caine said in 'The Italian Job' - "Are those quartz iodine bulbs you're putting in there?"

Not many people know that.
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:lol: Must watch that again beats the pants of the remake ..
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Ferdie wrote: Sun Apr 08, 2018 5:09 pm :lol: Must watch that again beats the pants of the remake ..
For sure!
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