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Roscoe
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Just picked up some headlights last night that were in a barn...The woman told me they came off her parents ‘60 bus they bought new. However, she also had a story she was foggy about with a relative with an early vw. And something about France etc... I got to ask her if she can get more info.. anyway, got a nice OG OG paint mirror arm and A maintenance stamp book with some French stamping.
I’m puzzled by the headlights though and was wondering if anyone seen any like it. Seems like they may be 1955. Maybe for a beetle. They’ve been in a barn forever and I haven’t had a chance to clean them up. They are a fluted headlight but don’t have the round circle in the middle, but rather a horizontal line in the glass is mirrored pretty much from the line down. They are hella’s with a VW logo at the top. They also have the reflectors inside with yellow bulbs. |
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Roscoe
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| Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2020 3:55 pm Post subject: Re: Headlight ID |
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| Everett, yeah The have a horizontal line going through them and are mirrored on the bottom half.... thinking it’s a weird French thing. I’ll try and load photos |
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Roscoe
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| Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2020 8:46 pm Post subject: Re: Headlight ID |
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Ok, here they are...
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Roscoe
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| Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2020 3:53 am Post subject: Re: Headlight ID |
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| Ok, cool thanks! |
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finster
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| Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2020 6:42 am Post subject: Re: Headlight ID |
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why would the bottom section be mirrored?
are there numbers on the glass above the hella logo?
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banana split
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| Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2020 11:18 am Post subject: Re: Headlight ID |
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Wow, those are some really unusual headlights.
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Blue Baron
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| Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2020 2:37 pm Post subject: Re: Headlight ID |
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| Roscoe wrote: |
| Just picked up some headlights last night that were in a barn...The woman told me they came off her parents ‘60 bus they bought new. However, she also had a story she was foggy about with a relative with an early vw. And something about France etc... |
You can rule out bus because the flutes are vertical rather than horizontal.
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Roscoe
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| Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2020 4:40 pm Post subject: Re: Headlight ID |
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Grabbed a couple more photos for part numbers that may or may not be useful to I.D. these weird-ass beetle lights
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Roscoe
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| Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2020 3:24 pm Post subject: Re: Headlight ID |
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| So I knew that they were likely French market headlights. And they’ve been dated to 1954. What I think weird is that the glass has a mirror finish backing to it on the lower section. I’m not sure why they would do that?? I guess the light isn’t going to pass through a mirror. Very strange. I’m sure they’ve never been taken apart as they’ve been in the barn forever, but perhaps I should take one apart and carefully clean it which will show better in photos how weird it is |
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