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Old Jun 13, 2023 | 03:29 PM
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Spent the last several days restoring my headlight assemblies. These are custom aluminum pans from a racer/fabricator close to Willow Springs in CA. The cups are from a Mercedes 280SL as far as I know. I'm doing an LED conversion with a set of Cibie 5 3/4" bulb housings. Also had to do some acrylic repair on the covers, they had cracked about 10 years ago. Having fun. Ask me anything :smile:




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Old Jun 13, 2023 | 07:34 PM
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Looks like a fun project, although not everyone's taste. I like something different. I put a set of rectangular lights on my 78. My daughter picked them out as being from a mid 70 camaro right away. I trained her well.. Show us a pic of the project car these are going into.
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Old Jun 13, 2023 | 10:54 PM
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Modified some universal dust caps to fit the LED bulbs. Not thrilled that these bulbs are red anodized, as it casts a reddish hue inside the unlit bulbs, but it shouldn't be noticeable except up close.






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Got the buckets installed, can see the inside reflections better now. Really wish these were anodized gold or silver.


That said, the lights are very bright, they run cool, and draw 32W for the pair.



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