I had an acquaintence who was really big into small, British convertables.
He worked at Microsoft at the time and had been there long enough to have a
little funny money to put into these fancy, imported, two-seaters. His crown
jewel car, a collectors item of exqisite quality, had a completely busted
tail light. With all the work he had done on the restoration, well over
$40,000 of work done - he couldn't drive it because of the tail light. It
was just a simple round tail light, 3 screws hold it in place. The car was
worth quite a bit, but to the uncultured eye it was just a little european
convertable with a tail light out. Cops thought the same thing - and
ticketed him several times. They ticketed him enough that the state was
ready to do something drastic if they caught him again. Hunting for parts on
these types of cars (old fiats - before they were called fiat) basically
comes down to an email group like our own, of which there are less than 14
members. No one had the light, or could find one since they were so rare and
long since out of manufacture.
So what did he do? He spent $15,000 to have a replica mold made (using the
antique process that the original lights were made by) to produce... ONE
little red tail light!
All that to say: making custom lights (if he went with plexy he could have
cut the cost in half) is an expensive game.
A better bet, is to take some lights that already exist off of another car
(BMW?) and fit them in there. Then the SAE and state approval process
(depending on where you live) is no longer an issue...
Good luck.
-Sambo
-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Shastko [mailto:
smotocon@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 11:49 AM
To:
BC-BFLegacyWorks@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [BC-BFLegacyWorks] Dual headlight conversions
I'm still around.
As far as dual projection I think that you are better off buting a set for
an impreza and modifiing the casing. You also need to keep in mind that a
dual projection light system needs to be SAE approved. So you first need
lights that have SAE on the glass lens and then take it to a main state
patrol office to get a certificate of approval to make it street legal. I
thought about doing this for several differant cars but its very costly and
time consuming. The best way to go is to cut and paste with fiberglass and
wood to make a mold and then the skys the limit. making it out of aluminium
is very costly unless you have someone to donate about a weeks time to
workin adjustments features.
>From: "jason grahn" <
jgrahn555@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To:
BC-BFLegacyWorks@yahoogroups.com
>To:
BC-BFLegacyWorks@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [BC-BFLegacyWorks] Dual headlight conversions
>Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:16:58 -0800
>
>If Ian S. is still floating around on this list, i know he has a CNC that
>we'd probably be able to use......
>
> >that and i got to figure out how to cast the light frames.. i got lots of
> >plans and napkins but nothing real..sigh..
>
>
>-Jason Grahn
>
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