Are these headlights THE king bee headlight?

[four-thirteen]

i scored these things at a junkyard the otherday, they were sitting in the back of a POS chevy. the chrome is falling off, and the some of the surfaces are pretty bad, but they seem fixable. could someone tell me the story on king bee headlights? thanks, David

[Unkl Ian]

Wasn't King Bee a brand name ?

[porknbeaner]

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Wasn't King Bee a brand name ?

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Yea those may be Guides, what's the tag on the top say?

I think that King Bee is kind of a catch all anymore for lights shaped like that with 7" sealed beams.

But I wouldn't worry about it they're obviously older and if I liked they way they looked I'd run 'em.

[Digger_Dave]

What does it say on the top of the housing?

[four-thirteen]

it says "king bee" on the top, what else?... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif i figured it is a brand name, like Guide. there is no model number or name on these. David

[alchemy]

Those are King Bees. The brand King Bee made accessories for cars and trucks like lights (head, tail, and cab-top), gas caps, and probably other stuff. The headlights were probably available at the local parts house in the 50's, so hot rodders bought them there. I have never seen a vehicle with them as original equipment.

If you take them apart to clean them up, be carefull of the tags. If you ruin the tags you'll just have King Bees like the 1-800 repro rodders do now. You need the tags to have the "real thing".

- alchemy

[four-thirteen]

the chrome is pretty rotten on them, and i don't think they are worth the work to rechrome, unless these are a super desirable item. thanks for the tip, David

[alchemy]

I'll trade you a painted pair straight across. I have many to choose from, so we can get a comparable condition.

I'm always looking for "old chrome" hot rod parts.


- alchemy

[296 V8]

I was restoring a old (1939 then updated ) sprint/big car a couple years ago and noticed the gas pedal had king bee stamped in it.