Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 11:24:07 -0800
Reply-To: Scott Daniel <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Scott Daniel <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Organization: Cosmic Reminders
Subject: Re: Volkswagen Vanagon, 1.9 L Diesel, 1982 - $3750 (Bellingham)
In-Reply-To: <6CD3951C-18B2-4709-A9BE-5736509053FE@gmail.com>
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generally .stock rectangular 86 and up head lights don't work that well
actuallly ..
high beams are pretty great ..
but low beams ..I have at least 4 rectagular headlight vanagons...
if I worked on my daily driver one enough I could get to decent low beam
light patterns eventually.
the adjusting screw gizmo's break...
the reflelctors inside the housing corrode ...
and brightness , stock, is not all that great.
for Just Great round headlights...just get Bus Depots euro headlights..
screw right into a single round headlamp vanagon ..
They are fantastic ..especially for the reasonable cost and mininal
effort to get them into a round head light vanagon.
Very bright, real good light patterns..
highly recommended.
or ..if converting from rectangular back to round ..you need the round
light headlight buckets..
and a round headlight grill....
and those are medium rare to me, many of them being broken or
sun-deteriorated and brittle etc.
it's deceptive ..how easily an 82 or early van can be made to look like
a later one just by putting in the later rec tabular headlights and grill.
Scott
happy new year all !
On 12/30/2013 9:12 PM, TonyCollin wrote:
> If I HAD To convert or retrofit a dash or headlights. I think the lights would be the easiest to do.
>
> Having had an 85 and an 86. I think I would stick with the round lights. But that is just a preference for me. The van looks straight. Not that I'm in the market but I wished these ads had engine bay pics.
>
> Just saying.
>
> T.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Dec 31, 2013, at 12:01 AM, Robert Fisher <garciasghostvw@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Too subtle for me, obviously!
>>
>>> On Dec 31, 2013 12:59 AM, "TonyCollin" <tonycollin@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 86. But I was thinking the same until you look at a very 82-83 dashboard.
>>>
>>> T.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Dec 30, 2013, at 11:55 PM, Robert Fisher <garciasghostvw@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hmm ... what year did they go to the square headlights?
>>>>> On Dec 30, 2013 11:15 AM, "Edward Maglott" <emaglott3@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Not mine. in case someone is interested
>>>>>
>>>>> http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/cto/4260856319.html
>>>>>
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