[DeTomaso] Fw: Headlight Photos

[Edward Comber]

I did the Hall Pantera bolt on conversion several years ago and it took about 150 hours. Bondoing the top steel piece to the fiberglass and then grinding the bezzel so much I had to re-fiberglass it several times and then re-locating the mount holes. and of course having them painted to match the rest of the car!!!! It was not bolt on and I would not recomend it for a non adventurous person. 

Ed  

> From: artstephens at charter.net
> To: cengles at cox.net
> Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:54:19 -0800
> CC: detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Fw: Headlight Photos
> 
> My pleasure  Chuck,
>       I do like those simple projects,  and simple this was not!  (for me 
> anyway) :-))
> 
> Art
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Charles Engles" <cengles at cox.net>
> To: "astephens" <artstephens at charter.net>
> Cc: <detomaso at realbig.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2008 2:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Fw: Headlight Photos
> 
> 
> > 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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