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Old May 10, 2007 | 07:13 AM
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Frenched Headlights

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Does anyone have a picture of a frenched headlight? I'm thinking of doing it to my truck and was hoping someone had a picture of one that I could see?

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Old May 10, 2007 | 11:47 AM
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Planning on frenching them into the stock grill?
 
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Old May 10, 2007 | 02:40 PM
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Possibly a "frenched type" headlight ring since the headlight is part of the grill?
 
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Old May 10, 2007 | 03:36 PM
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I'm looking at frenching them into the stock 54 grill. I think it could look real good.

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Old May 10, 2007 | 05:35 PM
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I've seen a kit for this with one of the parts suppliers.
Remembered it was expensive.


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Old May 10, 2007 | 05:54 PM
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Getting rid of the bug eyed look of the stock headlights on the 53-55 is an improvement. You can use the 56 deflector panels to give room for the headlights to move back.
 
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Old May 10, 2007 | 09:03 PM
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This is a close as I could come from my pic collection. Thought it looked pretty cool.


 
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Old May 10, 2007 | 10:02 PM
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www.hagen.com
 
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Old May 10, 2007 | 11:10 PM
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I give up! What does pets have to do with frenched headlights?

I'm still getting over clicking on the link for pictures of Utes in Randy's thread and ending up on a gay austrailian's website (not that there's anything wrong with that...).
 
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Old May 10, 2007 | 11:57 PM
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http://www.haganstreetrods.com/html/new.html OK OK OK , my bad. Anywho, most guys just buy this stuff and make their lives a bit simpler. The ring ( bezel ) is very similar to the early Monte Carlo which works well when frenching your own sans the kit.
I may see a guy tommorrow at a car show that has a 54 truck and grill with french and the 56 bezel. I will take pics. Jon

PS: I hope you were not on the Ausie site for hours AX....
 

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Old May 11, 2007 | 12:39 AM
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I have some pics in my gallery
 
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Old May 11, 2007 | 07:17 AM
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'51 Ford car rings bolt on and give it a bit of a frenched look. See my gallery.
 
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Old May 11, 2007 | 08:02 AM
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Thank you all. I really appreciate the pictures and comments.

Jim, your lights look great. I also like your paint job, I've talked with my painter about doing a ghost flame job and he is very excited.

CIAF if you can take some pictures of your friends 54 I would appreciate it.

Ron
 
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Old May 11, 2007 | 08:42 PM
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54-4, that's not my truck(I wish), it is a pic in my collection of truck pics.
 
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Old May 11, 2007 | 09:15 PM
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'51 Ford car rings bolt on and give it a bit of a frenched look. See my gallery.
Do you know of any place to get those besides ebay?
 
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