There were 30 Elva MK VIs built. Of those, only a handful were endurance raced. By rule, any endurance racer at the time would have run headlights. Once we stripped down our car, we found evidence of headlight buckets. Some examples of how others did it back in the day.
Headlights could have been gracefully designed and cut in, as …
One solution might have been to glass in some 5 3/4" bucket mounts and cover the whole with a plexi cover as they did on cars like my Jamaican.
Otherwise, all the Lucas 576 series lights were that size and you could even get the lights with snazzy chrome bullets in the centre:
My Jensen CV-8 had two large headlights and two 5 3/4" high beams but that's probably not the look you were going for. I think that your solution looks very nice. But I think it would have looked very Chevron B16 with the lights as well.
How about pictures from the sister Sebring car? They show a bit of a lip at the top, and I can just make out the outline of the whole thing that seems to match the shape on your car. And the protruding part sure seems to match the taped over lights on the pictures of your car.
On re-reading your post, I see that you found the buckets would hit the tires. Maybe that's exactly why the factory (or whomever put the lights in, if it was Haas) had them sitting up like that. Come on, do it the "right" way. As much as those fenders might look nice with Ferrari/Jaguar esque lights, that doesn't appear to match.
In reply to RacerJ :
That is the same look that appeared on their #74 car. For other photos, see my post in their thread on finding old pictures of their Elva.
Here is another shot of their car and of the sister car showing the 'bump' at the top of the headlight.
In reply to Kubotai :
You sure bridged gap with your first picture confirming he had the same lights as all the pictures in 73. In case it helps Tim find the right parts, since this was a Haas car, it also could be that Haas added the lights. So, it could be that US sourced lights might have been used. Of course, I don't know what 1950s/60s cars in the US were running around with covered headlights!
Looks like we have a pretty darn good match here, and on a 1963 lightweight factory supported ELVA!
Wow, you guys found pictures that I hadn't seen. This is very helpful!
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