[DeTomaso] Lucas wiring

Charles McCall charlesmccall at gmail.com
Fri Oct 17 12:25:00 EDT 2008


Does London have a Little Italy like NY?

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 6:20 PM, <msm at portata.com> wrote:

> How about the windshield wiper fluid pump with the word LUCAS on it in
> big letters?  Where in Italy is that made?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com]
> On Behalf Of MikeLDrew at aol.com
> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 7:07 PM
> To: shelbygt at cfu.net; Detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Lucas wiring
>
>
> In a message dated 10/16/08 3 04 41, shelbygt at cfu.net writes:
>
>
> > The Lucas
> > wiring is probably the weakest link in the thing.
> >
>
> And the worst urban legand.
>
> There is NO Lucas wiring in any De Tomaso car.   None.   Nada.   Zippo.
>
> So forget that.
>
> What there is, is ITALIAN wiring (which isn't much better), mated to a
> hodge-podge of Italian, American, and British switches, senders, relays
> etc.
>
> The radiator and A/C relays, for example, are by Sipea.   The horn relay
> is
> Fiamm.   (Both are Italian).
>
> The only Lucas-ish things on the car are the rocker switches (headlight
> etc.)
> and the turn signal switch.   Even that is marked with Ford stampings,
> since
> it was taken from the Capri.   But as the Capri was a UK design (also
> produced
> at Ford plants in Belgium and Germany), it was filled with British stuff
>
> from top to bottom, and it seems likely that Ford subcontracted to Lucas
> to
> provide a version of their ubiquituous turn signal switch, which in
> various forms
> populated dozens of different British cars in the 60s and 70s.
>
> So it may be fair to say that a few switches are Lucas items (or derived
> from
> Lucas, as it's possible the rocker switches were built in Italy; they're
> not
> marked in any way), but the Italians get all the blame for the wiring!
>
> Mike
>
>
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