Reply to "Turn light exchange"

For those following this thread...

These two color lights are NOT a replacement for the early Pre-L turn signals.

Kid's car is an early pushbutton. It did not come with signal lights in a sheet metal pod, like the later L-model cars. It came with signal lights mounted in the small, chrome bumpers.

The photo he posted appears to be from a Euro car fitted with the non-USA 'eyebrow' bumper, with the L-model style pods below. This look came about when the USA cars changed to the pods when the rubber bumper was added.

Those lucky Euro guys did not need no stinkin' rubber bumper, so De Tomaso created the small 'eyebrow' bumpers to work in conjunction with the light pods that were standard in the bodies then being produced.

While the same stock all-amber lights are used for both the Pre-L and L Ford cars, the Pre-L small chrome bumper openings for the all-amber signals are quite a bit larger than the two-color signals.

I did borrow a set of the early bumpers and tried to see if the two-color units could be fitted to the bumper opening. I decided that while physically able to be fitted in the opening, I could not see an easy method to properly mount them in those openings.

The vendors may have stock metal pods available, and I know at one time Kirk Evans was working on fiberglass replacement pods.

So it is probably possible to remove the small chrome bumpers that came with the all-amber signals mounted in them, replace them with 'eyebrow' bumpers, and add the pods to allow use of the two-color signals. But not an easy upgrade project, to be sure.

Larry