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Some headlights on my modified - really rare and ugly.

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by Kevin Lee, Dec 10, 2003.

  1. MercMan1951
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    I like 'em too. Maybe by being "different" now, you'll start a new trend and skyrocket the price of the ones you've got... [​IMG]
     
  2. hatch
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    I'd just tuck em in as close to the shell as possible
     

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  3. BLAKE
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    I kinda like 'em like that!

     

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  4. horty
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    I really like those headlights and I thinh what hatch and so what said is right on, oh and finish the car. later horty
     
  5. I want some o' those headlights now! How much? Can I buy them? (That oughta drive the price up on eBay!!)


    I think that we have a majority in agreement here. Keep the lights. Adjust position and you're on a winner.
     
  6. the-rodster
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    Be different, make a statment! I think that they look killer!

    p.s. What's the bike on the side? I'm guessing mid sixties Honda CB?
     
  7. lulabelle
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    I think they look cool!But who cares what I think.
     
  8. I never liked them on anything else, but some how they work on your modified! I'd run um. Different is good!
     
  9. delaware george
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    they are cool...that's not a hard item to change that much...i plan on having a bunch of different headlights,wheels,air cleaners,and a hood.those items dramaticly change a car...and are easy to change...so my ride doesn't ever get stale....that's if it evers gets done [​IMG]
     
  10. HOTRODPRIMER
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    Hell,i'm gonna PEE in the pool,,,,put them in a box and sell them on E-gay,,,,,,Then get some small 48 Ford tractor headlights and really make a statement with unusual lights! [​IMG] [​IMG] [​IMG]HRP
     
  11. Rocky
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    They gotta be in close to the shell like Hatch said. Tell ya what, I got a pair of repop 33 commercials with halogen bulbs and turn signals inside the lenses, almost new. I'd trade you for those droopy mo-fo's....Or, my great big flat-lense lights.
     

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  12. tommy
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    I like 'em. There is a blurb about them in the new Street Rod Builder.
     
  13. Missing Link
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    What about rotating them 90deg in either direction. Might be interesting, might suck, i don't know. hmmm, rotated 90deg and relocated outside the front frame horns...??? I have no photoshop or I would do it.
     
  14. TomH
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    I like what Clark did with the matching grill. My question is do you have lenes that will let the light get out in front of the car. We tryed makeing up a lens for a buddys E&J, didn't work out. went to a snowmobile seal beam.
     
  15. I have mixed emotions about them.
    They do look better after the photo-shopping and especially so after the grille shell was filled.

    I do like the "Dare to be Different" aspect about them, but simply being different isn't always good.

    What I think would help many of us to make a better informed decision would be to roll the car out into the daylight and shoot a photo from farther back.
    I'm guessing that as close as the camera appears to be to the car right now, the headlights look larger than they really are.
    Sorta like the difference between shooting a portrait up close which will not reflect the beauty/handsomeness of the subject due to the perspective problem and using a portrait lense and moving the camera back a way so you see the subject as they truly appear.

    Maybe a side and 3/4 view while you're at it.
     
  16. TO me they look big and stupid. Sorry I don't feel just being different relates to something cool. They don't even come close to being anything traditional. To me they kill the look of the track nose, which is different enough to begin with.

    They might be interesting on another style of car.

     
  17. Kevin Lee
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    Well, the headlight stands were made to work with a different light so that's why they are positioned where they are. They do look better closer to the nose but they still aren't quite right.

    I think SoWhat's version looks pretty cool...but TV is right. I don't like it enough to be into a major rework just to use these lights.

    I guess I was excited because they were different....and that's about it. They're too big. The big negative is they're not racey looking at all...that's not a good thing for a race car. So far I think I like dirty dug's response the best hahaha.

    They are coming off but I'm going to keep them around for a while. Maybe they'll eventually go on something a little more "crazy hot rod" and a little less "early lakes car". Done.
     

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  18. Petejoe
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    I kinda like them. I think they would look good, you just need to find the right combination of position and stance. Would someone position them like sowhat but mount them <font color="red"> upside down ? </font>
     
  19. whizzerick
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    IMHO, they are not streamlined enough...
    I'd go with ivory painted or chrome E &amp; J's:

     
  20. Bruce Lancaster
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    I'm tending to agree with small and simple for the lights, but...
    Odd question. What do they look like BACKWARDS? Track roadsters are often shown with lights rotated 180 in a feeble try at streamling...I'm guessing there's an interesting and simpler shape right behind there...
     
  21. Kevin Lee
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    [ QUOTE ]
    I'd go with ivory painted or chrome E &amp; J's:

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    Haha, yeah I would too. And if I were you I would put my next Wizzer conversion on an Elgin Bluebird. [​IMG]
     
  22. Kevin Lee
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    Bruce - I hear you with the backwards lights. I'll give that a shot tonight. I wonder what the legal ramifications of driving around with your lights pointed backwards are? Or what about NO HEADLIGHTS AT ALL in the daytime? My entire light bar/spreader bar unbolts and could be stored in a very small space even with the lights still attached. I designed it that way so I could take the lights off and put them back on without having to re-aim them. Suppose it doesn't matter what lights I use if they're behind the seat most of the day. [​IMG]
     

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  23. Nads
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    Grimlok, I like those headlights a LOT. I think they look really great on your car.
    You should be really happy to have a pair of lights like that. They'd look stupid on my '34 but on your modified they're the tits.
    UI urge you to keep 'em and run 'em.
     
  24. whizzerick
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    Er... yeah. Point taken... [​IMG]

    Haha, yeah I would too. And if I were you I would put my next Wizzer conversion on an Elgin Bluebird. [​IMG]

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  25. toledobill
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    Just one old guy's opinion, but after seeing the various treatments with the headlights in question, the photos with the round lights look disappointing. Maybe the first lights didn't fit the track roadster or lakes modified theme, but they sure fit the really-early-years theme and made the car memorable. Like I said, just an old fart's opinion.
     
  26. DrJ
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    I'd put a pair of Sportster size King Bee's on it and save those lights for a Resto-Coupe with matching cowl lamps and a luggage rack.
     
  27. Tim
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    hmm whatever you end up with keep em close to the grill shell
     
  28. lakes modified
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    Hey: those suckers look great. i'd move them back , so the face of the lites matches the back edge of the grill shell. try it and see how it looks. that way they don't over power the grill shell and look smaller as someone else noted.. if not, sell them to me and i'll do it on my modified, as that's how i have mine located and it look fine.
     
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