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[Joe Elliott <jee@domain.elided>]

Interesting.  So all the Alfas running around outside of the USA with 
round 5.75" headlamps don't actually use the standard ones but rather 
something Alfa-specific?

On another note, I wouldn't consider myself a "luckly blighter" for 
having to spend multiple hundreds of dollars on H4/H1 headlamps. 
However "poor" they might be, I think I'd much rather be "stuck" with 
the Carello units that you poor blokes down under got, than have 
completely useless 1930's technology headlamps that I can replace 
with good ones for hundreds of dollars.  Feel free to send all your 
"poor-quality Carello" lights to the USA so I can give them to people 
who can't afford proper lighting but would still like to see where 
they're going in the dark.

At 8:30 PM -0500 1/16/02, alfa-digest wrote:
>Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 11:13:24 +1300
>From: "Graham&Joan Hilder" <graham.joan@domain.elided>
>Subject: Re: Aussie headlamps (Alfetta GTV)
>
>In Digest 381, Joe asks "Dare I ask why Down-Under-spec headlamps are
>different than those
>used in the rest of the world (excluding the USA)?"
>
>Well Joe, as far as NZ goes, and probably Aussie too, actually the
>down-under style of Alfetta headlamp is identical to that used in the rest
>of the world as far as I know, and it's only the USA which differs. The USA
>difference was a great benefit to me, in that USA junkyards can readily
>provide the Alfetta GT/GTV6 adaptors which allow any standard-mounting
>headlamp unit to be easily fitted to my Euro Alfetta, as a decent
>replacement for the poor-quality Carellos which came on the Alfetta GT
>(except in the USA, you lucky blighters).
>
>Best regards,
>Graham in N.Z.
>78 Alfetta GTV, etc.
>(PS  I wish you Americans had had the Alfa Sud cars too!  Then I would no
>doubt have been able to pull the same stunt with the circular headlamps on
>the Alfa Sud TI and Sprint, which again have their own unique-to-Alfa
>mounting-designs, and are very scungey semisealed Siem headlamps).  (Still
>at least the Sprint design is reasonably easy to adapt to a decent
>universal-style sealed or semisealed (Hella or whatever), but the Alfasud TI
>mountings, oh boy, what a pain THEY are to adapt......).

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