[DeTomaso] Fw: Headlight Photos

Charles Engles cengles at cox.net
Thu Dec 25 17:07:57 EST 2008


Dear Art,


            1)  A relatively simple project that
             2)  seems to involve a *lot* of fabrication and
             3)  does make the kit solutions look attractive!

             Thanks for sharing the picture story.   I understand picture 
stories!


                             Merry Christmas,  Chuck Engles



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "astephens" <artstephens at charter.net>
To: <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2008 12:30 AM
Subject: [DeTomaso] Fw: Headlight Photos


>         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.
>
> Art
>
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