[DeTomaso] Fw: Headlight Photos

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         Having lived with the Frog Eye headlights for more than ten years 
on 4268,  I finally decided to do something about them on 2556.  Part of the 
reason it took so long to get around to this was probably the thousand 
dollar price tag for the Vader and Kirk Evans kits.  A couple of years ago, 
Dave Rudderow of TPOC  told me that he and Bud Williams had converted their 
cars to the rectangular bulbs many years prior.  Dave emphasized how easy 
and inexpensive it was to do the conversion themselves,  probably before 
there were conversion kits?  I always thought it sounded like a great idea 
and I finally got around to doing it.  The project was definitely 
inexpensive,  but easy,  not so much.  It took me the better part of three 
weeks to do the job!  I don't recommend tackling it unless you have more 
time than money (or good sense).  :-))  That being said,  I'm pretty happy 
with the outcome,  though there were a number of times when I was asking 
myself if I wasn't trying to re-invent the wheel.  I spent about fifty five 
dollars on the Sylvania Silverstar bulbs #H4666ST and probably another 
thirty bucks on hardware.  The 85 dollars I spent sounds pretty inexpensive 
compared to the price of the kits,  but a thousand dollars sounded cheap by 
the time I got done with this damn project!  So, unless you are a glutton 
for punishment,  (or perhaps just more talented than myself),  sticking to 
one of the kits is probably a better way to go.  The link below has a large 
number of pictures of my project from start to finish.  The first three 
pictures are of Dave's car,  the rest are from my project.  Much of the 
hardware in the first 80% of the pictures wound up being trashed until I 
came up with what I wanted.  The last pictures are of the finished product.

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