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Old Sep 22, 2015 | 12:28 PM
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Always love your car....the lights look like they belong there....
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Old Sep 22, 2015 | 01:20 PM
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Must have used the same kit as on my 68 convert. Looks like a generic GM 1970's square headlight housing mounted in the glass pockets. Mine had no turn signals or parking lights when I got it and required LED to fit in the tight space.
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Originally Posted by ronarndt
Must have used the same kit as on my 68 convert. Looks like a generic GM 1970's square headlight housing mounted in the glass pockets. Mine had no turn signals or parking lights when I got it and required LED to fit in the tight space.
Ecklers offeres those 4 4x6 quad lights in the grill of both c3 and c2 tilt clips and sold the "part" to glass into an other wise stock front clip.....
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I'm just trying to figure out how to do a hide away grill for them ... the expanded steel and the wannabe turn signals have gone away.

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Originally Posted by The Phantom
I'm just trying to figure out how to do a hide away grill for them ... the expanded steel and the wannabe turn signals have gone away.

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back in the day i always thought a door that moved like on old camaros would be coolness
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Old Jul 12, 2019 | 01:23 PM
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i cast the necropost spell on this thread!
reason being i found a very nice 72 that has everything going for it except an ecklers non popup front-tilt hood thing. So i'm looking at the feasibility of alternatives.
noticed this crazy c3/c6 hybrid build that relocates the headlights and it looks super nice because of it

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Old Jul 12, 2019 | 01:36 PM
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Also, a datapoint of note that's unfortunate:
https://www.sema.org/files/attachmen...t-vehicles.pdf
this looks to be technically illegal in many states.
and going by an anecdote in this thread, you'll be pulled over a few times by cops thinking you're using your foglights as headlights, but leave once they realize it's high and low beams
https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...post1597075110
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Has there been any new developments along the lines of LED lighting?
are they even legal?
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Led lights themselves are not illegal, and there's a few 5" round replacements that have led projector bulbs, like dapper lighting's stuffhttps://www.dapperlighting.com/collections/1968-1982-chevrolet-corvette

There's a LOT of alternative designs that are more like "compound lights" with a lot of little elements. It's definitely a look, I don't much like it personally, also you may need to mess with the headlight mounts to make them fit

https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...t-upgrade.html

As a stopgap I went with led bulbs in reflector housings. Not ideal but I carefully aligned the bulbs inside the reflectors to minimize light bleed.




Long term I really want to do something like the knight rider C5 retrofit, a multi cluster square, with low profile "sleepy eye" headlight position


https://www.knightdrivetv.com/produc...it-coming-soon
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Originally Posted by jokeitch
Led lights themselves are not illegal, and there's a few 5" round replacements that have led projector bulbs, like dapper lighting's stuffhttps://www.dapperlighting.com/collections/1968-1982-chevrolet-corvette

There's a LOT of alternative designs that are more like "compound lights" with a lot of little elements. It's definitely a look, I don't much like it personally, also you may need to mess with the headlight mounts to make them fit

https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...t-upgrade.html

As a stopgap I went with led bulbs in reflector housings. Not ideal but I carefully aligned the bulbs inside the reflectors to minimize light bleed.




Long term I really want to do something like the knight rider C5 retrofit, a multi cluster square, with low profile "sleepy eye" headlight position


https://www.knightdrivetv.com/produc...it-coming-soon
I’ve been thinking that same thing. Love that sleepy eye look.
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Found this a couple years ago. Like the look.
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Are these lights stationary now?
or do they still actuate
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that is what i would like to do too. have the headlight door tops be horizontal when opened.
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