Has anyone frenched their headlights, by any other method, other than using the Hagan kit? I have their kit in place and it is awful. The rings are held on with 3 clips and when one leans over the car to check the rad, or whatever, the ring moves and at times has popped off. I would like to french the headlight (something like using the '52-'54 Mercury rings which would give me a tunnel effect) and eliminate this problem. Any ideas as to what I can do would be greatly appreciated. I would ***ume that the headlights of the late '30's and even the late '40's would almost be the same. Searched the archives and most of them relate to doing a '53-'53 Chev.
...those headlites go in from the front; most frenched headlites go in from the rear;...this wouldn't work on your 40 unless you unbolted the headlite buckets from the fenders to do so; or you cut out the fender below. You'd have to make em so you can mount the bulbs from the front, then install a trim ring that looks frenched.
Rusty is right.....you may be able to unbolt it from the fender and go in from the bottom. I think the conical shape will not allow it though.
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