Re: 1938 super eight search light dilemma

Posted by HH56 On 2019/3/2 15:05:30

IMO, in the postwar days thru the 50s spotlights were more of a follow the crowd thing. Seatcovers, sun visors, foglights and spotlights were all in vogue but as to how useful (except maybe seatcovers with small children) any of them were, probably not very. Roads were better and there were more lights along the way postwar to get much real use out of a spotlight. Prewar I would think the spotlight and driving lights might have actually done some good. If the car was not based in a city then lots of rural unlit roads and relatively poor headlights may have been an incentive to install and use a spotlight on a car.