DARK CUBBY HOLE

There was just one last little job I had to do. Gil from Better Car Lighting has sent me a couple of diddy LED bulbs and lenses and the dinkiest little rocker switch, to light up the glove box. Well silly me, the glove box already has a light that automattically comes on when the door is opened, I hadn't realised that.

The parcel shelf immediately underneath the glove box is a dark place, so rather than leaving these lights unused, I removed the shelf, drilled the required holes, pushed in the little lenses and the rocker switch, pushed the LED's into the lenses, connected it all up, soldering the joints and heat shrinking to insulate, reinstalled the shelf and the job was done. The lights are in warm white, so look suitably period and with the added reflection from the underside of the glove box, nothing will get lost in the gloom now.

Just in case you wonder what the large, round, white thing on the shelf is, it is the top of a chewing gum bottle. The tiny rocker switch is to the the right of the top picture, seen just under the head of a securing screw