Topic: Get Your Points Here! - Solved! License Plate / Numbers Lamp on Chaparral 1

[Otto Puzzell]

Know what it is?

To ID this car is an easy task, worth one point. ID the purpose of the chrome device in the center of the picture, and earn another. Tell us the source of the chrome device in the center of the picture, and earn a 3rd bonus point.   

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[MG]

The chrome thingie appears to be a hood latch/lifting device, though where it came from or what it is attached to I have no idea.

It appears to be a front opening bonnet a la the XK-E. Probably British.   

[Otto Puzzell]

Good guesses all, but incorrect.

Not a latch, and not a Jag.

[MG]

Is it a housing for a light of some sort?   

[Otto Puzzell]

It is.

[rchirnom]

Its a Chaparral 1.  The do-dad is a light to illuminate the numbers on the side of the race car.  The light appears to be a license plate light from some other car.  If you're asking what car is the source of that light, I have no idea.

[Allan L]

The do-dad is a light to illuminate the numbers on the side of the race car.  The light appears to be a license plate light from some other car. 

The light appears similar to, if not the same as, the Lucas type 467 number-plate lamp found on countless British cars of the 1940s-1960s

[grobmotorix]

we all do have time...

[Otto Puzzell]

I wasn't looking for the part number, but since Allan L got it, a point for him, too! 

[Otto Puzzell]

Its a Chaparral 1.  The do-dad is a light to illuminate the numbers on the side of the race car.  The light appears to be a license plate light from some other car.  If you're asking what car is the source of that light, I have no idea.

Correct!