Stack off the turbo. ;)

I always vote for the hood stack. If I wasn't threatened with divorce, my NA gas DD would have a cute little 1.5" hood stack.

When it comes time to lighting that beast give me a holler if you want to go LED and make it look stock. There are many easy solutions out there that don't look gaudy or have the nasty blue tint.

Don't forget to put a fart can on the hood stack, either.

In how many ways would that be wrong -- a classic Studebaker with a Mercedes diesel, hood stack, and fart can.

sure! I'd love a stock look with modern light levels. whatcha got?

37-8 dodge desoto chrysler housings, plain plymouth lenzes/bezels.

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Nice period lights. I still have a few sets of the large series tripp lights and brackets. Nothing suitable to mount them on though.

got pics?

you just need the deco bezels like pictured above and you got the coveted utamate rod lights, save the vanilla ones for usual use, the bandaid style will walk off if not guarded.
at the moment I got plastic repops, and will have alloy ones soon.

all I could find for tripp are acessory fog lights

If it were a '38 you could run a pair of Woodlites -

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Sixto
87 300D

The large tripp lights where an accessory on very large antique vehicles. Almost any older car less than an earlier 30s Packard/ Cadillac they do not suit. Not fog lights as much as a way to boost the average driving light output in those days.

Bill Hirsh had a 34 Packard with woodlights for sale at Hershey fully restored for not an unreasonable price many years ago. I always regretted not bringing it home. Today even with some decline in the prices of true antique cars. l would feel very uncomforatable buying one. I think speculators and manipulators turned the hobby into something else unfortunately.

do you have led bulbs I can use in the lights I have?

those woodlites won't work with my 39 fenders.

some of the prices seem like bubble prices for sure.

Mine use a good ole glass lenses that look like the ones in the pics (with a jewel in the center.)

The standard3 3/4 ones are not ready yet.
There are no led lenses that size , shape. I have a smaller version pattern for the 37 ford housings done, and there are replacement led lenses that size but the dont fit in my custom deco bezels

if you want to run plug in led bulbs or lenses, you have to have the low voltage gizmo wired in to compensate. the latest led trend is to have a led lenz instead of the replacement plug in bulbs--but those are avalable on the net like at speedway or ebay etc, I used to find them in the acessory ile at walmart.


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For quality power leds you need to do a little fab work:

LED driver that takes your 14.4V and brings it down, while limiting current flow. It's two wires in, two wires out.
Aluminum heatsink for the LED
Thermal adhesive
Power LED of the color you want.

Here's a blindingly bright setup for a brake light, not the cheapest but will knock the socks of anyone who sees it:
Driver1 (350ma) for running lights Wired BuckPuck - 350mA Constant Current LED Driver without Dimming
Driver2 (700ma) for brakes applied Wired BuckPuck - 700mA Constant Current LED Driver without Dimming
Heatsink is up to you(I'd use 1/2" thick alum plate or thicker)
Thermal adhesive Arctic Alumina - Premium Thermal Adhesive
3-up rebel LED Luxeon Rebel - Endor Star 3-Up Red High Power LED

If you don't mind sifting through the pages and waiting for delivery from china, lower-cost versions of the same can be found at www.dx.com
I like the LEDsupply guys because they're domestic, fast, and sell quality product even if it's 3x-5x the price of chinese stuff. The DIY section gives some more ideas http://www.ledsupply.com/diy-led-projects