Greetings! A friend of mine bought an old pickup, these headlights were stored inside, anyone know the make and model vehicle they came from? I figure it must be a large truck of some kind because these things are huge! Thanks, Mike
-------------------- Definitely! Probably the find of the year or may even of the decade!! Those particular 'Electroline' headights were an ultra-rare, super-high-dollar factory option, only offered on a handful of 'export-model-only' mid-'30's Henway 'Armoured Limousines' and 'Triple-Cowl Phaeton' touring cars! I'd be on the phone right now to the Smithsonian, or at the very least, to the CCCA!! Mart3406 ("Official Henway Motors Corporate Historian and Archivist") =========================
dont listen to them those things are junk, send em to me and il despose of em for you. seriously tho good find, those things have some serious art deco style. slicker than shark shit!!!!!
They could be off of just about anything. Big truck manufacturers usually outsourced parts like headlight assemblies instead of making their own. Likewise some of the "orphan" makes of cars. Rather than making their own, they used Electroline, Guide, BLC, etc. Guide was/is part of General Motors and supplied the whole GM line but also supplied others. I remember seeing a pair of Electrolines like yours on a '36 Studebaker hearse. I don't know if they were original or if somebody put them on later, but they looked like they belonged there.
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