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TimGud Sat Mar 15, 2003 6:35 pm

I don't think these belong on a 59 panel. Does anyone remember who made them? http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/70569.jpg

TimGud Sun Mar 16, 2003 1:05 pm

Anybody know? :(

ricobuggy Mon Mar 24, 2003 7:56 am

Those look like Hella fluted import lenses...

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/index.php?photo+200302131445494752
add for someone selling a pair.
Rich

BUCIOBATISTI Mon Mar 24, 2003 10:53 am

timgud- Problem is, those in your pic are for a Bug, notice how the lenses are 90 degrees out of place for a Bus? They are supposed to divide the light from side to side, not up and down as they are doing now. I've seen that done before and laugh my ass off all the time when I see it. The best one is when guys put 911 headlights in early Buses.

TimGud Mon Mar 24, 2003 7:53 pm

Ya they do look kind of dopey sitting sideways. Alot of the special mods(late 70's) on this bus were kind of dopey and I have been changing them. Thanks, I have another set of these lights somewhere in my stuff that can be dug out,hopefully they will be for a bus. By the way how do you tell the originals from the reproductions?

BUCIOBATISTI Mon Mar 24, 2003 8:48 pm

By the VW logos and "made in Germany" markings. The originals that they would have supplied from the factory would have been either Hella or Bosch.



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