Well I have forgotten how the license plate light mounts on my 53 custom line. I have the light ***embly with the socket, lens, and bulb. There are 2 extra holes for screws, but do not see how it anchors to the car, bumper, or the license plate/gas filler bracket. There has got to be another pice floating around the shop I thought I had pictures of it when I tore the car down but cant find them now. any one got a picture of a factory one mounted to there car?????????????? Thanks Dan
I had no suggestions as I'm most familiar with the '59 Fords. Mine is native to the car with the gl*** lens still intact. I took it all apart, cleaned it up and painted the reflector with silver paint. Looks very nice all lit up.
yep my 59 is also. I painted the reflector black followed by chrome paint. I had forgotten the 53 used a weird bracket, I had the light ***embly and just could not figure out how it bolted on, I finely found the bracket it was blasted and painted , I do not remember doing it, I guise one of my friends done it . I had to pull the bumper seal back off to install it (seal clips inside of bracket) It looks like an after thought by ford but the bracket fights the 4 hole in the body. the ones on the bottom were striped so pop riveted it in place and light bolted right up cant hardly see it from the top
Don't forget to change the bulb to 12v if you're converting the car to 12. I had a repop license light that came with a 6 volt bulb ('57=12v...go figure), and it blew out right away.
Got it Texas57 bet it was real bright for a few seconds before it blew strange your repo had the wrong bulb chines part what you going to do Hole car went 12volt most bulbs are L.E.D. last a lot longer. Also put a 12 blower motor made for older school buses can be bought from buck wheel and equipment $30 in the heater changed the gauges to 5 auto meter cluster and new harness been using the 21 circuit from speed way had very good luck with them . A note on the speedway harness I bought the first one 7 years ago figuring it would be junk but was very surprised I would rank it with painless . only problem I have had is the wires to the tail end could stand 4 more feet probably installed 20-25 of them now with no problems. in the early 90 I did a lot of installs on the painless harness and some warranty work usually caused by customers there just got to high $400-500 is nuts . man look at all the mud dauber nest and spider web on the under side in just 8 moths maks the under side look nasty.
Mud daubers.... probably got some nest pictures on my build thread. There were some out in the open, but the majority had to be shaken out of the defroster plenum, which was fragile as is.
Wish I could operate this computer because the licenseplate light holder for my 53 is laying on my work bench right now! I'll see if I can get some help.
The Jalopy Journal
