What's with the E&J headlights?

They look like OLIVES......

 

I like all kinds of headlights, especially custom painted ones.

 

Built by Frank Mack,... first picture 1953 (with his aunt in Traverse City),... second at the 50th Detroit Autorama set up,... For decades the most famous of a very small handful of Hot Rods that ran them,... Frank liked them, that's all that matters.

 

Thanks for posting those pictures. IMO that car just looks right with them. I think it has something to do with the '27 body being so slick looking when it's down on the ground with a track nose. I agree with others though, they don't look this good on many of the cars they have been put on.

Frank

 

They don't look that good on my 27 track nose car. Frank Macks is wider than mine, maybe that does it. Or it's the color of the car. The cars with them I've liked, have been black. Cam Grants 32 Roadster is one of my favorites. Clarks old car looks good too. Another thing that might make a difference is that mine are painted.

 

Gray Baskerville really liked Frankie's roadster as well,...


looking pretty good with a 57 year old finish still on the car,.....

 

Mac I cast em up using some glass re pops they do over here as moulds. had to modify the glass ones to get the split halves and the factory fixing segments. Peace 8bb

 

Dude, why don't more people build hot rods like that? That thing is rad!!!!

Loose some of the goofy stuff, the horns and bumpers!!

 

I think the headlights fit in with this thing. As for Fred Macks car, He was not just copying others because they were rare or exspensive. In MHO, his car would have looked better without them.

 

Hahaha.

 

E&J's are for the goldchainer that wants to say he has everything on his car.......including $3000 headlights..... it's for the man who is trying to compensate for something else.....

*When are you going to start on thread on ELECTROLINE 2000's - headlights that were most comonly made for American LaFrance fire trucks, but now fetch over $2500 for a pair.......

* OR Woodlites....who would put these $3000 headlights on their car??

 

It's too bad they are "goldchainer" parts now. I bought a nice set for $400 from a guy at a V-8 Club swap meet in Peoria over five years ago because the were different and I had never seen them around much before. I guess aren't "traditional" enough any more and will have to stay on the shelf for my estate sale. LOL!!

 

I have less than $500 in two sets of E&J lights. I would love to have a set of the woodlights but I refuse to pay that much for headlights.

I do also have the Electrolines with the matching taillights....I'm a bit of a headlight and taillight whore.
Clark

 

I like the way all these lamps look (I really like Electrolines). But they don't always look right on the cars that they are on. Mack's car had the right look IMO. Clark's RPU was right on, too. But to have them just to have them is dopey.

 

Consider it done on the horns. The bumpers are actually skids that go underneath the axles and travel about 3 inches above ground. The concept was that at high speed a tire blowout would not flip the car. They are in the original design drawings so I kinda have to keep them. It has the same sort of thing in the back.

 

I dig 'em

 

FYI...Donnie Stevens of Lie & Brag fame ran Woodlites on his A roadster until some body hit him and totaled the car. Donnie is not a gold chainer!

Here are the Zipper glass E&J lights with machined rims and motorcycle halogen bulbs that throw plenty of light

 

I hate those things, IMO you cant beat a pair of '34 Commercials.

 

They be ugly. Bucks up guys put them on high-end cars and we're supossed to think they're cool. "At least they're different" is the excuse. Ok, I agree - Different and....Ugly.

 

None of them have to be big bucks! I bought 2 sets of Electrolines both under $200. To top it off the first set was on ebay. Now the ebay ones were before they were popular.

Now I just wish I could find a set of the Woodlights. Might have to go for the repops.
Clark

 

I like your roadster better without them agreed.

 

Give me a pair of Arrows and I will be smilin'};-)

 

If the E & Js are uncircumsized headlights then these Woodlights are the Vaginas

 

I'd like to have a pick-up truck full of them (for sale). Don't like em at all though.

 

yeah, wot he said.

 

8bb,

thanks for the info- they look great, and with the cycle innards, I bet they work just fine.

woodlites were a popular aftermarket option for many high-dollar autos in the 20' and 30's- Auburn, Dupont, and Cord are a few makes that are regularly seen running Wood's.

Oh, I hate to say it, but I was watching Bob the Builder with my boys the last time I looked at this post... alot of the track-nosed cars have an uncanny resemblance to "Rolly".

 

Those look just right. This'll probably show how little I know about early headlights ... but what are they?

 

Those are Electrolines...like these.
Clark

 

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