[DeTomaso] Fw: Headlight Photos

Sat Dec 27 11:56:09 EST 2008

I've always thought that the ultimate conversion would be stationary lights inside the fender at the back of the cutout and a lid hinged at the front edge that lowers in the back. Unfortunately this requires cutting out the fender hole a bit.

Aston Martin used this solution on the Bulldog concept car with the whole front hood as lamp cover:

No lights:
http://www.uniquecarsandparts.com.au/lang/pt/images/heritage/aston_martin_bulldog.jpg
Lights:
http://www.autocult.com.au/img/gallery/CARmageddon1150.jpg

Tomas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Green" <kenn_green at yahoo.com>
To: "Charles Engles" <cengles at cox.net>; "astephens" <artstephens at charter.net>
Cc: <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Fw: Headlight Photos

> Art,
> 
> I always view projects as excuses to buy tools that I can't otherwise justify.
> 
> I've seen conversions where a clear sheet is used to cover the opening, and the headlights are stationary. With the new small diameter lights, this seems like a good option. I assume there is a loss when the light passes through the clear cover because of the steep angle, but I'm not sure how bad that is.
> 
> Ken
> 
> 
> --- On Fri, 12/26/08, astephens <artstephens at charter.net> wrote:
> 
> From: astephens <artstephens at charter.net>
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Fw: Headlight Photos
> To: "Charles Engles" <cengles at cox.net>
> Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
> Date: Friday, December 26, 2008, 9:54 PM
> 
> 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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