Show me homemade single headlights

[richp]

I believe the piccy below is of US spec headlights but wondering if people have done something similar to their cars but using a more DIY approach?

[Deleted]

First example that popped into my head was this:



The lights are shown briefly here (it should play at 33:20)

[ettorebugatti]

Mot really home made, but still quite cool.

[jiminwatford]

retrorides.proboards.com/thread/109581

[PhoenixCapri]

Haha I was going to post a link to my Capri but appear to have been beaten to it!

Sadly I've nothing more to add, other than it's pretty easy to do, making a grill to match is probably the hardest bit, got loads of plastic that's great for making slats if anyone needs any

[fr€$h&m1nt¥]

My headlights themselves aren't homemade as such but they're dominator headlights fitted on custom made brackets behind a custom zunsport grill.

[nomad]

Low tech, low effort route...

1. remove standard grille & small (size 4x6) rectangular lights


2. fit quad headlight grille surround from summat like
www.simoncars/Humber_Sceptre or


3, Fit new large (5x7   ) rectangular lights, open up the twin-round light covers to suit, fit cover plates around the new lights (1 done in pic -1 still to do  ) 


Jobs a good'un!
 

[bstardchild]

Headlights in this were home made



Not what you meant mind and they were much cop after dark.......

[richp]

Ha! Were they decals you had made up?

[bstardchild]

Jan 22, 2015 11:29:26 GMT richp said:

Ha! Were they decals you had made up?

Yeah photographed the original headlights and then stuck on top of Perspex that I anchored to some straps from slam pannel down to where the headlights sat.

Looked better without the 24's

Caught a few people out because one of them even shows a "bullet" (stone chip) hole received on a track day

[mikeymk]

Not quite in the spirit of the original question, but in fitting with the topic generally - dipped projectors on my MK2 Polo..

I didn't have to do any cosmetic fabrication as they're the same size lenses as the original spot lights. Underneath, it's a different story.

Pivoting brackets were required for electric adjustment, this was easy. Finding a radiator was more time consuming - the Polo radiators sit to one side and the lights are too deep. First I shifted a 1.0 unit between them but the bike-carb'd 1.6 16v lump got a bit hot.

Eventually I found one to fit between the lamps, plumbing, down the front of the cross member, miss the alternator, up the outside of the slam panel but clear the bonnet. It's from a Renault Megane..

As they compliment the original dipped units, this does mean four dipped beams under normal driving, which certainly makes the car look different at night/winter (relevance to the single headlight aspect is questioned as you need separate main beam units, which the original outer lights feature - I'm sure some external spot lamps will legally suffice as main beams though).
Visibility is also considerably better than the average 30yo shopping trolley.

But with the lights off, it's subtle. Head-on it's weird, but from a 3/4 angle it just looks standard.