Features Chrome Headlight Lens

Somebody help me out, I know I'm not going crazy. Isn't there custom headlights where the actual glass lens looks like chrome, or a mirror? Just a round sealed beam headlight that would replace your regular H6024 parts store headlight, but the light itself looks like chrome.

I've googled, I've searched ebay, I've asked friends, nobody knows what the hell I am talking about and keeping showing me the chrome headlight half-covers which is not what I am talking about.

 

I think what you may have seen is a regular headlight with a 'mirror tint' film applied over it. If you look through this, it looks like a mirror one way and will have a 'smoke' or green tint the other way. The film is available, how well it would hold up under headlight heat or cleaning I can't say, and I'm sure it would reduce the light output from the lights.

 

...maybe you're talkin about the chrome sheilds that cover the top 1/2 of the headlites, kinda like "cat eyes" but solid.

 

I've seen lamps that have burnt out get the chrome or mirror "look", could the one you have be a burnt out one?

 

Well I am not talking about the half moon covers. Those are cool, I just always thought these were cooler still. Maybe Crazy Steve was right and it was a mirror tint film applied over the headlight. For sure, I can't find any for sale this way.

 

Cut it in about half but most of the guys who run them probably don't drive fast enough for it to be a bother. Around here it's a "Bomba" thing that some of the lowrider brigade with the older bombs think is a necessity.

My eyes don't see as well as they used to at night and I sure don't want anything on my headlights that hinders highway speed driving over serious distances.

 

Yes! That's what I am talking about!

 

I've seen them before here and there, but all I can do is prove that you're not crazy.

it's not tint and the entire light is chrome. Never saw one lit up, tho.

 

I've been looking for them also,I've seen them in old mags!

 

That Pontiac just has the half covers. I have them on my Buick and it makes the whole lens look chrome unless you look closely.

 

Put two covers on one light!
On second thought.....

 

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I like this way this guy thinks!

 

Considering the reflections on the top lights vs the bottom(of that Pontiac), I would say that those are full covers and not halfs. It's reflecting the strip before it at angle, so it makes sense.

 

I have the half covers on mine. They do make the whole lens look chrome unless you look closely.

 

I like that a lot, it's true, at a glance it appears to be completely chrome.

 

I'd guess that someone with glass experience might have made them for a show-only vehicle by cutting the lenses off of sealed beam headlamps. Then, they could have "silvered" the backside the same way that glass mirrors are made. When the lens is glued back onto the rest of the lamp it would make the lens look "chrome." Obviously, the lamps would not light up because the vacuum would have been lost when the lenses were cut off.

 

No, these were working lights. I just asked my co-worker (he's 63) if he remembers them from back in the day, and he said yes he definitely remembers them. He explained it as the headlight glass being basically the same as your mirror sunglasses from back in the day. He could not remember what they were called though, but he said they were popular in the 50's. I know I remember seeing them as a kid in Texas back in the 70's. Every once in a while now I will see an old hot rod with them as well, next time I do I am definitely going to have to ask about them.

 

There's a t-bird in the "save it or shave it" thread that was just started that has these lights you're looking for-or so it seems-might want to ask that guy.

 

Thanks for the tip, I just checked out the thread!