Thread: Project Sebring GT Spyder

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Thanks guys.

Yeah, Bob, I agree. The old grille was complete mess.

I decided that I since I showed the final front look, it was as good a time as any to show the final rear look, too.

The lower lights are 50 Pontiac LED units from Rodworx (that is the correct spelling). I have their taillights in my 46 coupe and they are the brightest I have found. The original taillights in the Sebring were some kind of tractor or truck parts. I’m not sure why Classic Roadsters decided to put the big lights in the car. The original Healey had Lucas lights top and bottom that are the size of the upper lights. It may have been to meet some kind of federal regulations or maybe they were just cheap and available. At any rate, CR modified the body for the big lights and that’s the hand I was dealt.

The old lights





I found out about the Pontiac lights fitting on another site dedicated to these cars. I made some aluminum adapters for the holes. I will most likely get them powder coated because they will be hard to keep from corroding without removing them.







The upper lights are Lucas reproductions with original Lucas beehive lens. The Lucas lights came with flat lenses, but I thought the beehives might look a little better. I have some LED conversion bulbs from Rodworx for them. I didn’t really like the idea of having any Lucas parts on the car considering how poorly anything made by them holds up. However, they are the only lights that really look correct and they are just a simple light socket. The way the lens is retained is very strange, though. The lens has a lip around the base and the socket has a rubber gasket with a groove that the lip on the chrome trim ring fits into. No screws are used, except to mount the socket to the car. You have to very carefully work the lens base into the gasket. Kind of weird, but I guess it woks. I also mounted them with custom aluminum adapters.







The bumperettes are the same 59 Sprite parts that are on the front. I should add that I shortened the body mounts front and rear that the bumpers attach to so that they would tuck in as tight as practical.

The exhaust tips are no name parts that I picked up at a swap meet several years ago. I kind of went for the XKE look with the narrow spaced tips.

The license is mounted on a spring loaded fold-down mount to give access to the trailer hitch. I don’t actually plan on towing a trailer much, but I do have future plans to build a removable trunk mounted luggage rack. They were a common accessory for British sports cars. I plan to have a couple of tubes run down to a removable insert in the hitch for support. Gotta get this thing on the road before I worry about that type of thing, though.





When it all comes together, this what you get.