Hot Rods Headlights

We all have headlights on our hot rods but what style do you prefer?

My preference has changed sense the 60's when I thought the king bees were the bees knees but as I have gotten older I have really embraced the big original styled headlights,which is evident on my last few hot rods.

How about you guys? HRP

 

I like OE headlights on all my Hot Rods. Especially the big '32s!

 

It seem with no fenders I seem to end up with a little smaller.

Model A on the Deuce toadster.



And Guide on the 4 door hiboy. HRP

 

I prefer the smaller 903 BLCs on my cars, although though the larger boob shaped ones are very nice too.

 

I like these.



Sorry Danny I just could not resist.

I am still a fan of King Bees and have a pair for my current project. I wish I had tags for mine, someone smoothed them and had them rechromed.

Just to get us back on track

 

Damn Beano,I threw up in my mouth a little!

I actually know a guy here in town that has a 34- 5 window coupe and a 32 hiboy with those stupid headlights,I give him hell all the time but he things the are the cats arse,and I tell him the look like a cats arse! HRP

 

Beano,they ain't king bee but Ryan has the BLC tags,at least they will fill the holes and at 7.50 a pair they won't break the bank. HRP

 

They were stylish in their day.

I was actually looking for a pic with the 4 lights on the tall pods but no luck. I used to have a pic of one of these style setups that had been set up with quads converted to rectangle that didn't look too bad.

Mine have actually been filled and rechromed. You can see on the inside where the holes used to be. But the BLC tags are cool. Someone told me that you can fiind repop KIng Bee tags on line.

 

I aseen on line were a couple of Hambers have had them for sale but not recently,good luck with your hunt. HRP

 

Hey this has absolutely nothing to do with the thread but I stumbled on it. Isn't this an interesting spaceship?

 

So were drawer knob festooned grills!

 

Well never heard it put that way but yes I believe you are correct. LOL

 

I...I kinda want to see more of that.

 

Certainly reminds me of the 60's show rods. HRP

 

Here ya go. HRP

 

I'm such a "waffler" . At first I bought a pair of speedway 33 commercial re-pops. I like them but heard they were not very good for vision at night...then there were the guys saying they were too street-rodderish....not traditional.
Well, I wanna see at night so I swap meeted them [at a loss] and bought a pair of Guide 682J's from ebay that weren't....they were some kinda little tractor lites and I swap meeted them too...at a loss.
Next up were a pair of BLC682J's that are pretty nice but their shape is kinda long....I like'em ok. The H-4 sealed beams looked great in my 49 Ford coupe but in the 682J's? Jury is still out but I LOVE the way the halogens shoot a beam out there a mile down the road! I don't know if any headlights will satisfy all my desires.
And now I gotta find some brass rivets for my BLC tags after I drilled the originals out to paint the buckets.
Don't even get me started on turn signals!

 

Ace Hardware.

 

Thanks, Benno.

 

I call BS on the Naysayers,side walk commando's in my opinion.

As far as lighting up at knight this has been true for many years until Bob Drake started making the new reflectors made from chrome plated plastic the have a cone in the middle of the reflector,night vision is far superior to the reflectors in the past and these use halogen bulbs and there are absolutely no dark spots between the lighting out in front of you. HRP

 

If you don't see 'em let me know they got 'em here.

 

Thanks HRP!

 

Oh yeah,as for the turn signal debacle,one per side is ugly enough,two per side starts looking a little like lobster eyes!



Have you considered painting the turn signal housing black so it doesn't stand out. HRP

My poor attempt at cleaning up the look.

 

I like the big bug eye style. Love the 33-34 Ford commercials and the stock '31 Chev lights.

 

I know my local ace hardware has a huge assortment of stainless nuts.bolts and screws plus a plethora of hard to find pieces like the brass rivets. HRP

 

I like a sit of big head lights! I even like them on my rods too. I have 34 Dodge lights on both the delivery and A coupe.

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Skip the brass rivets.....just go to the hardware store and get some appropriate size brass machine screws and nuts. Then chuck the screw in a drill and file/sand the end of the screw to remove the screw slot, and shape the end to look like a rivet. That should take 3 minutes each. Mount them on the headlight using the screws and secure the nuts on with blue Loc-tite.

 

Dietz, Arrow, or King Bee are the lamps you'll see in eastern or western magazines when determining what the old guys ran. The great big old bulb lights mounted under scrub height is a fairly new take on what really happened ...

 

Well, I would have preferred a set of Guide's, painted to match the car but I ran across a set of new Stainless knock offs for less than $200.00 shipped and being the cheap bastard that I am...

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I actually picked up a set of original Deuce headlights a couple weeks ago and thought they were too big for a lil stripped down roadster look so ill be sending them down the road eventually.

 

I don't know what kind these are that I put on my deuce but I really like them with the domed lenses.