Customs lets see your headlight treatments

So lets see your custom headlight treatment, frenching, sinking, grafting, modifying and so on! I know we have traveled this road already but.... After a couple hours searching this topic I must ask, why so much bashing. A decent topic gets posted and then theres ten pages of opinions and bashing? Lets try here to preserve a technical approach to helping the noobs as well as the vetrans. I'm currently thinking about using some 1956 ford rings on my 49 shoebox, has anyone already done this? Are these rings pot metal or even usable? I like the peaks and would love to see something similar at least? thanks for all your help and if you must post about the famous hagens please be respectable.

 

49 Merc bezels on 51 Merc - awaiting final leading, s'il vous plait!

 

thanks fordy, thats a purdy face! Im assuming you just mounted the bucket from behind?



Does anyone have any 56 ford bezels smoothed in?

 

I worked some 55 chevy on my 53. it has a similar peak

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=1139672&stc=1&d=1288919603

 

ok here ya go 54 Belair, on my 50 pickup

 

just damn awesome,cant wait to see this done.

 

That car is just flat out rad.

 

My '51 Caddy with '53 Cadillac bezels (pot metal) leaded in.

 

For the Headlights of The Pearl Necklace, we filled 1/2 inch EMT pipe with sand, welded both ends shut, then made a wooden template of the contour of the fender cut that out, clamped it to a table, heated the EMT pipe, bent it around the wood. Then cut the ends, emptyed the sand, then cut the bent pipe in half. Then welded that to the car. gives a nice rounded smooth look nicer then just moldeing the stock bezels in wich are flat/ alota work for sumthing 98% of people never notice.

 

duals on my old A bone.....frenched on my old shoebox (unfinished)

 

56 Olds H/L bezel V'd... with the fender peak extended into the bezel

 

Moved bucket deeper and used 56 Ford pick up rings

 

By null at 2010-10-08

 

53 buick rings on a 51 chevy truck. Easy custom treatment.

 

1957 Oldsmobile on 1950 Merc. Might look good on your shoebox

Rick Erickson / Extreme Kustoms

 

Now that is nice...dig the grill also

 

I cant wait to see how this thread progresses. Im thinking of '56 buick bezels on my '53 Desoto. Really all i want is something with a peak to it.

 

56 olds fenders grafted on

 

These pics are just awesome, please keep them coming. so the olds treatment is awesome, this is pretty much what I was thinkin in my head. Does anyone know about the metal quality of the 56 ford bezels? Some would say use whatever but I like to do things once and dont want something cracking down the road...I've been told to glass in the potmetal rings but I've never seen glass and metal work well together...

 

here's mine, grafted on 55 chevy fenders...

 

here is my frenched 53 buick

 

<----- '54 Merc rings, frenched them in myself. Lights adjust from behind with wingnuts.

 

I frenched the stock rims and took an aftermarket headlight and broke the glass out of it, then I took a Lucas Lens that has the chrome tit in the middle and siliconed that to the aftermarket bucket with a non faceted reflector and now have the look of "Lucas Flamethrowers" with H4 lights.




BB

 

thats great Bob, I bet the imports feel like a deer in headlights when your comin down the road

 

54 Ford base rings, custom fabbed hoods.

 

I did 58 Lincoln quads on mine last year....

 

this is super clean, almost exactly what I looking at doing. Do you have any build pics or progress pics of this car?

 

Mine on my 77 Truck

 

Here is my dad's '56 Olds with custom quad headlights.

 

I believe I saw this car at Gene's show in Mojave a couple weeks ago, very cool. I did a double take when I saw it in the parking lot by our hotel. Oldsmobile really had something going on