Discovered today that what I thought were plastic cased yellow foglights on my BCW are actually painted metal cased lights with chrome glass surrounds and then some sort of cheap looking plastic mesh front cover over the fronts. 

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It’s a British Coach Works 1.6 liter GM front engined TD.  Got it from a woman in West Jersey who enjoyed it for a couple of years.  Emissions/EPA stickers under the hood mention a 1987 date.

At Kent T:  My jumper idea failed – popped the fuse.  At night it seems bright enough but I may look into a brighter LED bub.

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Here’s one I put in yesterday but kept the license plate light in place.

Here’s the “new” third stoplight in place attached to the license plate frame.

   

Just finished attaching and wiring this to my BCW Model 52.  The application is for Motorcycles but the box it came in mentioned that it was a Lucas Copy!  I cut a couple of pieces of metal stock and attached to the two screws in the back of the license plate light.  The BCW being built in the era of late 1970’s EPA requirements being in…[Read more]

Is that the Chevette Column stripped of all the plastic, or did you install a completely new one?

Thanks Ed.  

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My BCW front engined TD has 14 inch wheels and it came with Roadking Grenadier p185 – 75 r14 tires. 

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@ Ric.  Is this what your BCW and Edsnova has on it?  

The Motorcycle Community has amazing looking caps – many are screw in.  Does anyone here know if the filler neck for a Harley is the same size as the generic looking cap I posted here?  That would be the simplest and most cost effective fix for my particular “problem”

Ricrx7,  Somehow I missed your post!  Did your BCW come like that or did you modify it to be more like the TD?  Noticed the dash – phenominal – if you did it let me know what the process was like.

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This is like the ugly type I have now.  

The really nice ones I see online are all for Harley’s or other bikes, which I’m pretty sure are smaller in diameter than a generic automobile fuel filler. 

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99.9% of these are motorcycle gas caps!  Smaller neck, different thread pattern.  I’m looking for a modern plastic underside but with a chrome top.   

Thanks Folks!  Much appreciated.

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Thanks Tex.  I think the electrical is just a bad alternator.  If it’s more involved I’ll share on this site.   

Here’s a shot of the rear of the car too with the funky 80’s hollow squre stock chrome travel rack that looks to be some sort of towel bar!

Thanks Langan.  Was thinking that may be the issue – I charge it – it runs fine but I was probably running lights, radio, heater blower, etc. off the battery and when I stopped the thing was dead.  

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Hood opens on either side with a hinge down the middle like a TF.  Cable actuated from inside for passenger (battery) side of engine and then a spring hook inside for other side.  

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