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Classic Cars 54 Chevy Bel Air hartop
36 messages, Last post on Aug 16, 2009 at 6:20 PM
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Replying to: isellhondas (Sep 08, 2007 1:26 pm) I've always wondered where that continental kit trend started, anyway? Those cars certainly didn't leave the factory that way! Same with fender skirts. I dunno how popular this trend was, but there used to be a kit you could get for a 1957 Chevy or Ford to convert it to a quad headlight setup. I saw it in an old 1958 Popular Mechanics that my granddad had. The ad said "Make your car look identical to the new 1958 models!" Umm, not hardly! The end result looked sort of like those 1958 Packards and Studebakers that had the hastily contrived quad headlight setups. I'm hoping that quad headlight conversion fad died pretty quickly.
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Quad headlights were available on some Chrysler cars in the states that permitted them. Of course, in 1958, everyone had them.
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Replying to: isellhondas (Sep 08, 2007 1:53 pm) Yeah, I think that's why they didn't offer a kit for '57 Chrysler cars! You couldn't get quads on a '57 Dodge, Plymouth, or DeSoto Firesweep, but you could always just convert it, using 1958 parts. And the Chryslers, Imperials, and bigger DeSotos just offered them from the get-go in '57, in the states that had them legal. I saw a one-off concept of a '57 Bonneville that had quad headlights, and it was actually pretty sharp looking. The fenders were actually redesigned to take the headlights though, so they weren't just stuck on as afterthoughts like those '58 Packardbakers. Another nasty quad setup that just popped into my mind is the 1957 Mecury. |
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Replying to: andre1969 (Sep 08, 2007 3:23 pm) That car should have never happened.
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Replying to: isellhondas (Sep 08, 2007 3:59 pm)
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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Sep 09, 2007 7:04 am) An unfitting end to a great marque. |
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Replying to: andre1969 (Sep 08, 2007 10:56 am)
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Replying to: andre1969 (Sep 08, 2007 1:40 pm) |
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Replying to: lemko (Sep 11, 2007 9:42 am) Never once, in my youth did I see a car with blue dot tailights but now, they seem to be the rage on old cars. |
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Replying to: isellhondas (Sep 08, 2007 1:53 pm) If I recall correctly, that Nash and the 1957 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham were the first cars with quad headlights as standard equipment.
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