Greetings,
About 1967 my Dad showed me an old Ford cardboard box he had up in the rafters of his garage. It contained a headlamp assembly, NIB. The story he told me that one summer between years of high school (somewhere 1947-1950) he worked for Gateway Ford in Livingston, Montana. Apparently the boss there decided to clean out the parts department (OK, here is where everyone needs to hold their breath!) My Dad said he spent a week solide loading old parts into the dealership delivery truck and takingloads of Model A - Model T etc parts to the DUMP!! He liked the looks of this one headlamp so he took it home. When he told me this story I was 15 and SO into hot rods and old cars that I nearly cried. Anyways, fast forward about 30 years and he gave me this headlamp, still in the original box. Fast forward to today and I've decided to sell this headlamp to pay for parts for my '49 F1. Can anyone tell me for sure from these pics what year this headlamp is? I'm told since it's black, it goes on a truck... Since I'm a new user I guess I'm limited to one pic per posting??

 

Here's another pic of the headlight assembly...

 

Here's last pic, sorry they are so huge... I appreciate any thoughts on the year of this headlight.

 

Looks to be in amazing shape. Does the box still have any numbers on it? That will tell for sure what it fits.

 

The numbers I can read on the box are: 1-B-13005-H. I did a google search and it appears the numbers 13005 have been used forever by Ford for headlamp assemblies. I can't find anything reflecting all of those numbers (I may not have looked on appropriate sites) Thanks for looking!

 

From the research I've been doing with my future build is that headlight was put on mainly 30s trucks because it is bigger than the ones they put on the cars. As far as what it went on, could be anyone's guess. I still think it came off of a 30s Ford truck.

 

Thanks for the reply! I just sold this on eBay last week for $165. Not as much as I thought it might go for, but it will buy me the wiring harness for my '49!