Re: HID-ing in the woods

[Hulda Jowett <hjowett@nasc.mass.edu>]

> << A friend of mine knows Bob Eliot well. My friend said Hella sent (or was 
>  sending) some of these lights to Bob for testing on his 16V Rally GTI. He 
>  he he, I know where they park this car..... Shame if they forget to 
>  remove the light rack.... ;)
>  
>  Brian
>   >>
> Remember, tho, Brian, Hella claims to mark each one with a VIN type number
> (it's in the lit)....  For that price they should....  Keep us posted on the
> outcome....  I was doing some math, and find that without sponsorship this
> will be a tough sell for Hella.  An average PR driver runs a race, 2 days,
> specifically 2 nites....  That means approximately 20 max rallies to the life
> expectancy of that 1 light system, most cars have 3....  divided by 1200USD
> per pair cost, that's one big chomp out of an admittedly tight rallye budget.
>  OUCH!  Please keep us posted on the successes of that lights' performance in
> PR venue.
> 
> Scott
> 
Spoke with my friend tonight. He said Bob ran the lights earlier this 
season. Hella apparently sent him two sets for testing. The first set 
was the farmiliar blue light, the second lights up purple though! Wonder 
what that's all about? The lights performed flawlessly, no problems. Very 
bright!

Unfortunatly, Hella requested the lights back for inspection. No HID for 
me :(. They also started to remove the lights from the cars while in 
storage. A set of Rally 2000s were swiped from one the cars. About a week 
later somone spotted these nice new expensive 2000s on some piece of crap 
redneck pickup truck... This is gonna get interesting...

Later,

Brian