This is the Spider:
This is the Spider WITH RALLY LIGHTS!!!!!
It was totally worth all the work. For years I had a single 5-inch Cibie fog light in a box, and one day it occurred to me I should mount a set on the car, in the style of the old 124 Rally cars (well not exactly in the style, but close enough). I poked around on Ebay and saw a single Cibie light for sale cheap, got excited and bought it, and realized when it arrived that I'd purchased a 7-inch light, instead of a 5-inch to match the lonely one I had. So there I was with a set of mismatched lights and a lot of annoyance, but then I found another more-or-less-matched set and picked those up. I had to make a couple of brackets out of angle iron to mount to the bumper, and ran a new circuit and relay from my new power distribution box.
I
got a few cheap round single-pole switches, one of which happened to
fit exactly width-wise into one of the unused holes in the console,
which i think was originally where power window switches went, and saved me from drilling holes.
The lights bolted down just fine on the brackets, I wired up the power and switching circuits, and awesomeness ensued. The new alternator still hasn't shown up yet, which is annoying, but I'm going to see if I can order some brushes for one of these broken ones which I think might fix it (but really at some point I should get an oscilloscope).
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