anyone ever see those clear bullet headlight covers from the 60s?

anyone familiar with those clear bullet shaped headlight covers they sold back in the early 1960s? i think i remember seeing some on ebay once, but haven't had much luck finding any..if worse comes to worse, i can make a pattern and have my friend vic (excellent resin model builder) cast me some out of clear resin,,,,just figured i'd take a shot here first and see if anyone had any leads/input/thoughts,,,thanks guys.

 

They may have been the ones i had....i found them in a box in the back of an old station wagon that was in the junkyard...I didnt know what the hell they were but they were different looking wich is typically the stuff i go for....lolol...It was till recently i saw some in a restyle mag and was like F@@@@CK!!

 

In case anyone is wondering what Jim is talking about here, Here is a shot of an early Doug Thompson Merc (that got really wild after these shots)...but you can see that this car is wearing those headlight covers, although it looks like one was missing...

BTW Jim, if you decide not to go with the 58 Lincolns, these will compliment your taillights nicely...

 

My brother had them in 1955 on a 53 Ford Victoria. He called the car Marilyn.

 

THATS them bob!!!
ANYONE have a set???????????????
they would look absolutely PERFECT on the car..

 

were they made of gl*** or plexi

 

plastic, i believe,,,

 

Looks like she could have used a set too

Steve

 

why dont ya make a vac-u-form outa a shop vac and pop out what works for you......either way make alotta extras for you and to sell and recop the cost

 

"Marilyn", how about "Jayne"? How about "Mamie"?

How about (insert your favorite 50s-60s pinup girl/actress here)?

 

Good luck finding a set Kustom7777. In all my years of building kustoms and collecting the goodies that go with them, I've only seen one set and they were the worse for wear.

They are definitely one of the rarest of the rare! E

 

Plastic is cheap to re-pop.




I'm just saying.....

 

I would think even if your could find them they would be so cloudy and yellowed that they would not look very good anyways. I think your best bet is to have a pair made. To bad you can't weld plastic with your mig

 

Holy ****, those are cool!!

 

I believe SEAN from The Strangers made his own that are on his 57 Ford, shoot him a PM?

 

hi jim try wayne the dice king i think he had them back afew years
teddy

 

Jim,

Perhaps you can vacuform them over an old headlight bucket, or Appleton Spotlight cone.
I think the vacuformed clear plastic will hold up better than cast clear resin.

 

talk to SEAN you'll be happy .......

 

I have a large vacuum form table if anyone's interested.

 

Firdt thing that came in mind was the Strangers '57....and appaerntly
i aint the only one.
Kool stuff, a guy in italty has one on a '60 european ford speedo, it
must be 4" in diameter same bullet shape, real kool.

 

I know its a long shot-but I bought a 57 caddy from a guy in Queensland(Australia) and it had those headlight covers on it.He said a guy up his way could make them-PM me if you get stuck-maybe I can help you out?

 

Looks like they would be a nice addition to the Dagmar's on 1950's Cadillac ...

You don't think it would be TOO MUCH do you ...

 

do you know his HAMB name?,,id like to contact him,,thanks

 

Uhh.............it's Sean.

 

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/member.php?u=89

 

Sean's '57

 

bad***!!, , , contacted sean, , , he's gonna help me out, , , the telstar NEEEEDS a set of those................................

 

Damn, that worked out well.

 

yes, , , the HAMB comes through once again!!