Simply Enhancing the Cobra High Level Brake Lamp - Version 2

Part One.

Simply Enhancing the Cobra High Level Brake Lamp - Version 2

Having begun the quest to find the Cobra Lamp, seen in this photo, we developed the idea promulgated in our issue of the 1st Version of Enhancing the Cobra 

The Original Target Photo

This effect below was achieved by exposing the Strip of Chromed Plastic which is part of the existing Lamp Holder.

1st Version

Then we were contacted by a member who is a good friend of another Roadster 100 owner. 

He had found the simplest of solutions needed to provide a chrome Bezel for the existing Morgan Cobra.

MINI SIDE LIGHT BEZELS

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-x-MINI-SIDE-LIGHT-BEZEL-/363159848075

The Supplier, BriteBritBitz manufactures these items so is the sole supplier.

Classic British Brightwork

Coldnorthcott

St. Teath

Bodmin

Cornwall

PL30 3LL

These chromed bezels were originally sold in pairs but are now sold singly. 

The Bezel Outer.

The Bezel Inner.

 Buy one Bezel for £8.10 plus 1.50 postage

The Simple Bezel Fitted on his Morgan Cobra.

 Fitting this Bezel could not be more simple.

There is no need to remove the Cobra from the car this time. The Lamp Glass is re moved via its two x head screws. 

These screws are also held onto the Glass via their fibre screw retaining washers.

2. Carefully remove the two screws from their fibre washers screw retainers and from the Lamp Glass. 

3. Slide the Bezel over the Lamp Glass and re fit the two screws through the bezel, then through the Lamp Glass and then through the Black Rubber Gromit.

4. Lastly refit the Fibre Washer Screw Retainers to each screw .

5. Re fit the Lamp Glass with Bezel to the Cobra Lamp Holder. 

Project Completed 

Frank

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Part Two - An Alternative Approach 

Workshop Note: Cobra Update 

by Dave Wellings

This job has been on my list for a long time. 

We've discussed before the fact that the Cobra doesn't have a chrome bezel, and I kept putting off looking into it, thinking that it would be a tough conversion.

The reality is that a standard indicator backplate (L794/795 & L691/692) will fit easily. 

I'd already sourced a couple of backplates from E Bay, a long time ago.

 

If you do this job, don't get the backplate with the double terminals for side and brake lights.

This is the plastic internal unit in the Cobra. 

A nicely made unit, which is secured into the metal casting with a single countersunk Allen bolt visible on the right here.

The original light unit attaches to this using two screws on a bracket.

This is how it looks fitted. 

There are four fixing positions. 

The original bulb holder uses the 12 o'clock and six o'clock positions.

There are two fitted threaded screws in square holes in the backplate which must be drifted out. 

Then the square holes must be extended out slightly, so that the two fixing screws can use the three o'clock and nine o'clock positions. 

Note the cut out at the bottom.

Everything lined up easily and although I thought there would be a step between the light unit and Cobra, in reality this is small.

With everything back together, this really does look much better than the original. 

I used socket headed setscrews, which I've used on all my lights, just because I like the look.

The Finished Cobra