Mounting up the new bumper guards one evening this week I realized how busy the front is. yeah, I know, so why am I adding more parts I will not nor do I have the time to go full on custom with this car, but I still want to do the little things. The turn signals have to go. I want to place some form of directional in the eyebrows above the headlights. I want to center drill the eyebrows for a bulb housing with a nice little lens. And there is the problem who makes tiny little turn signals?
them darn streetrodder types,m ake a headlite with blinker rite in em or try a lite/lens for production lineequipment .. power on off lite
ooh. and no, I bought the tri-bar headlights from Speedway, the same style you are speaking of a while back for this car. Upon opening the box I didn't even touch them and still kind of puked in my mouth. They look like cheap shiny plastic Christmas ornaments. Someone has to make tiny little lights.
Although they wouldn't work on your car, seeing this post makes me wonder what I did with the illuminated fender ornaments I had on my red and white (Cordoba Red-Kenya Ivory) 57 Safari when I sold it. I was in to casting with resin using RTV molds a few years back. Those fender eyebrows look like a prime place to place a lens made of clear or tinted resin with couple of small LEDs for illumination. Might be able to do the same thing with pieces plastic sheet (lucite or plexi or Lexan) cut to fit.
Thanks twofosho!!! You have me thinking in a different direction. I can drill thru the eyebrows and place some little beehive style lenses there, and then move the original bulb housing's up there and fab some little brackets to hold them in place just behind them. If I were to take cutoff wheels to the eyebrows and try to shape the half moon for plastic lenses I would have to send them out for rechrome.
Go to the trucker's chrome shop at www.atwchrome.com and check out what they have, if you live near a truck stop you might fine something there. Those big rigs have some pretty cool chrome and light stuff that could work on a kustom or a rod with a vivid imagination and ain't that what it's all about?
I'd be willing to bet LED is the only way to go. I know they sell little light strings that you could stuff in there with a lense. A few small LEDs wouldn't give off that street rod look as much as alot of them in a more con****uous place.
You could try some of the motorcycle parts places. I've seen tiny replacement turn signals for use on sport bikes that may fit in there. Or, you could maybe buy some super bright individual LEDs and stuff a few in each eyebrow, if you're up for a little do it yourself electronic work - they make a little plastic LED holder that snaps into a drilled hole.
Whats so bad about a little re-chrome to make them look professional????? or cut the eyebrows from the back side and let the red lexan cover the unchromed part of the eyebrow...better make more than just a bracket for the bulb..make an enclosed box to keep bulb out of water splashing up on it...
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