Loti at Stowe

[DART]

 

[DNK]

Elans are Fuggly with the lights up

 

[Deleted member 8987]

Yeah, but when the up/down bits are broken, or the owner doesn't know how to do it, there ya go.
I remember 20+ years ago lady brought a car in the headlamps were popped up....can't even recall what kind it was now.
I got the work order, drove it in the shop, sat there, looked and the dash, and there was this button on the right side marked "headlight". Pushed it, lights down, and worked properly......apparently it was for washing the car and headlamps without them being on and baking the soapy water.....and she had just had it at the car wash, apparently.....

 

[AngliaGT]

Elans are Fuggly with the lights up

But they're such cool cars!
I got to drive one for a weekend,during the
ABFM in Portland a few years back.I hated to
give it back.

- Doug

 

[DNK]

Course the Wedge ain't no princess with em up either

 

[Sherlock]

Yeah, but when the up/down bits are broken, or the owner doesn't know how to do it, there ya go.
I remember 20+ years ago lady brought a car in the headlamps were popped up....can't even recall what kind it was now.
I got the work order, drove it in the shop, sat there, looked and the dash, and there was this button on the right side marked "headlight". Pushed it, lights down, and worked properly......apparently it was for washing the car and headlamps without them being on and baking the soapy water.....and she had just had it at the car wash, apparently.....

Reminds me of an <span style="font-style: italic">incident</span> during a recent trip, noticed that the parking lights on my car ('94 Subaru Legacy) were staying on whenever I turned the car off, couldn't figure out why, since I was away from home we pulled the relevant fuse to kill the parking lights, which of course also killed the rear lights, a rather careful balance especially at night, a little bit of fuse swapping...

After I got back was worried about possible repair cost, did I need to repair a switch? Called a local Subaru garage (five days after it first happened), told him the story, he then told me about a switch at the very top of the steering column that controls the parking light, somehow I had switched it on and not realized it! Bingo!

 

[DrEntropy]

Elans are Fuggly with the lights up

Originally, they were held up with vacuum applied. Then in about '68 they went to a "Super Safety" version to reverse the scheme: no vacuum, they were held up. Vacuum when the engine was running held 'em down.

Lots of S-1 ~ S-3 owners whined about traveling along at night, going up a grade and having the things "droop" and not being able to see the road ahead. If the valve for the vacuum tank (it was the front frame crossmember) was leaking, it happened. That valve was expensive.