Jaguar World

KEITH HELFET

IN MY column in the May 2023 issue I mentioned the problems car designers often faced in the Seventies due to a change in American legislation that banned covers over headlamps and instead required standard sealed beam units, either round or square in shape, but with nothing over them.

Due to their size and shape, the issues these changes caused were

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