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Old 09-28-2010, 09:54 PM   #7
Lamar Wadsworth
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Default Re: 1935-36 passenger headlight question

The bucket is the same for '35-'36 car and '38-'39 truck, only the '36 car mounting stud is shorter. I've got '36 car lenses and rings on my '38 pickup, best thing you can do for the looks of the '38-'39 trucks. Most of the trucks I've seen had the stainless rather than painted headlight rings, which makes me wonder if the painted ones may have been a wartime replacement part. I know that was the case with exterior door handles. '43-'45 trucks had painted door handles, same stamping but plain steel rather than stainless. My '38 had a wartime painted door handle on the driver's door when I first got it, don't know if it was a replacement part purchased during the war or if some previous owner took one off a '43-'45 in the junkyard. By the way, the '40-'41 big truck headlight stands that have the little oval parking lights in them are a bolt-on swap for '38 and '39 trucks. Those oval parking lights are nothing but '37-'40 car interior lights with a glass lens instead of plastic.
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