Headlight fork info needed

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got10carz
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Headlight fork info needed

Post by got10carz » Thu Jan 30, 2020 5:59 pm

I have 2 sets of these brackets on Ford lamps. What is the story, aftermarket?
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Re: Headlight fork info needed

Post by Wayne Sheldon » Thu Jan 30, 2020 7:00 pm

There were hundreds of marques of automobiles that used fork mounted headlamps, both acetylene and electric. They could be from any of many dozens of them. And Ford headlamps often wound up on non-Ford cars simply because they were readily available.
And they could just as well be after-market.


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Re: Headlight fork info needed

Post by Altair » Tue Feb 04, 2020 2:00 pm

On a lot of early cars headlights were optional and so were the forks, Studebaker also used the same lights and forks. It is conceivable that a car could have come from the factory minus the headlights and were later installed with aftermarket units.

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