Re: Fog Lights

Posted by su8overdrive On 2023/10/14 15:57:42

Why are you adding them, is the better question? In the '30s,'40s, certainly '50s, you r a r e l y saw fog or driving lights on any cars, expensive ones included.

Hobbyists today think they need every factory and dealer option available, overlooking that most of the latter were simply a way of increasing the dealer's profit margin.

My '47 Super has driving lights (clear, fog are amber bulbs only difference) because dealers took advantage of a car-starved public by loading inventory with options.

Keep it simple. Cars look best with fewer distractions, gew gaws.

Make sure your grounds good. They make LED headlights for our 6-volt cars now. Also, consider a bolt-in (no butchering whatsoever) 6-volt, positive ground, 55-amp alternator if you want brighter head and tail lights, especially when idling at a light or at slow speed.

Jim's Battery Manufacturing, Youngstown, OH (707) 426-7580 has such 6-volt alternators. In the win-win-win, you're saving weight, as with using an 800-cold-cranking-amp Optima Red Top 6-volt battery. Something few old domestic car guys grasp: "Weight is the enemy" in any serious sport, GT, road car. A little here, a littler there, it adds up.

Tell Jim that Mike, '47 Super Clipper, Walnut Creek, CA, and the late Hans Edwards, '47 Custom Super, British Columbia, referred you.