Cowl lamp switch.

Bill Goddard

Bill Goddard

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I am restoring an early '29 leatherback 60 A and it did not come with cowl lamps. The brackets that support the fuel tank on each side have a formed depression in them that looks like the spot you would drill the hole to mount the lamps. I read that some of the early cars came with provision to in stall at a later date but not from the factory. I have never seen a Leatherback with cowl lamps but as I said the provision seems to be there and my wife likes the look of the lights so I thought I would install them for her. So I am going to go with the senario that some previous owner took the car back to the dealer and asked to have the lamps installed. I have read that when the dealer did the installation he mounted a separate switch under the dashboard to turn it on/off. Now - does any one out there have a picture of what this switch looks like and where it is mounted? And maybe where I could get one? Thanks Bill G
 
I installed a set of parking lamps on my '28 Leatherback. A suggestion: after locating the center of the hole where the lamps are to be mounted in the body which is done by driving a punch or nail through the center of the bolt that mounts the parking lamp arm to the brace, use a Green Lee chassis punch to make the proper sized hole in the body. This will reduce the amount of paint flaking around the hole. JMHO
 
Good luck with that! They are about as scarce as hen's teeth!

I just wired mine up to the regular light switch
 
has anyone ever located a small toggle switch with multiple functions that we could fasten behind the dash panel with a simple bracket?
 
if you look at the wiring on the original I'm just guessing there must have been various options, as there were apparently several wires going to and from the switch....maybe to turn them on independently of headlights, turn them completely off, etc.
 
I'm looking at the tiny pic on p. 328 of the Service Bulletin. It seens to show the switch getting powered from one of the wires going to the tail light, presumably the brake light wire which is always hot. The pic doesn't show a feed from the terminal box though I'm sure that can happen.
In any event we'd like to have a thousand of them wouldn't we LOL.
 
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