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Grilles and Head Lights #711478
05/30/10 02:43 PM
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This style grille/cowl/front end treatment pops up alot, is it aftermarket?

Alos, my headlight stalks on my 37 are cracked/broken. Are there aftermarket headlights available that look close as Im not retoring the truck.

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Re: Grilles and Head Lights [Re: AZ_A12_BEE] #711481
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Plenty of headlights out there... for example.. http://www.speedwaymotors.com/Street-Rod-Headlights-Model-A-T-Tri-Bar-Dietz.html?page=GRID

Or any place that sells street rod stuff will have tons of it (CW Moss out here in Orange has alot of early Ford stuff)

That grill on the top coupe looks just like a normal '34 one?

Maybe take a drive out here for father's day weekend and the LA Roadster show...big street rod show that's been going on for 46 years..might give you some ideas.

Re: Grilles and Head Lights [Re: AZ_A12_BEE] #711482
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The reason you see that front end so much is the 33-34 ford is the most copied car out there and so is the 32 ford, with all the steel cars and fiberglass cars being made they are like the first camaros, almost more around now than there was back then.
go to any street rod show and you can see as many red or black 32,33-34 ford you want

this is just my opinion and I don't mean any disrespect to anyone that owns or wants a 32-34 ford but I wouldn't want one for the same reason I would never own a camaro, it seams like everyone has one and I don't like to have what everyone else has

now that truck you posted above is made up as that front end is car and the trucks used a front end more like a 32 ford in 33 and 34, that truck is pretty cool, I can see one done like that with a mopar body Ron...

Re: Grilles and Head Lights [Re: Mopar Ron] #711483
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Commerical (trucks) had a bigger/different headlight too I think?

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Commerical (trucks) had a bigger/different headlight too I think?




Yep about 9 1/2" for the trucks

like these:
12 volt quartz halogen bulb behind original lens. Primered 1934 bucket with stainless steel rim. 9-1/2" diameter.


and a little pricy

Price: $269.99

http://www.speedwaymotors.com/1934-Commercial-Headlights,3026.html


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Re: Grilles and Head Lights [Re: Mopar Ron] #711485
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Yep

My buddy Peter from Oz (who I work with) has been into '34 Fords for ever..he's had a '34 (original steel Oz body) roadster for 25 ? 28 ? years now..along with a ton of other previous ones..his wife has a '32 roadster that was her daily driver until they had kids

I've picked up abit of knowledge over the years from him on rod stuff, but always learning...he has alot of old buddies into it too that I know and we've been shipping stuff for, for years.

I knew another Aussie who lives down in Coto De Caza (gated area down in south OC) who brought his pair of '32s with him when he moved here a while back...a coupe with a stroker cammer and a roadster with a stroker 351C

Re: Grilles and Head Lights [Re: Mopar Ron] #711486
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My headlights are fine, its the mounting stalks that are cracked.


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If you are fine with more universal or Ford type stalks...just check with any place that sells street rod parts. You'll find headlight bars ,and individual stalks as well.
Just a matter of finding something that will be similar angle where it mounts to the body.

Re: Grilles and Head Lights [Re: AZ_A12_BEE] #711488
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My headlights are fine, its the mounting stalks that are cracked.




do your stands look like these???
that is what you need to use for the hood body lines to line up. they are pot metal, you might be able to have them welded up and then grind them down and save them.
or if you use something else it would have to be something custom that would have to blend in to the body lines....



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My headlights are fine, its the mounting stalks that are cracked.




do your stands look like these???
that is what you need to use for the hood body lines to line up. they are pot metal, you might be able to have them welded up and then grind them down and save them.
or if you use something else it would have to be something custom that would have to blend in to the body lines....







My stands doo look like that, one is fine the other has a large crack. Can it be repaired?, its pot metal.


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Re: Grilles and Head Lights [Re: AZ_A12_BEE] #711490
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I would take it to a good welding shop and see if they can tig weld the pot metal and then grind and sand it down







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