bogiediver
Senior Member
Learned a valuable lesson at a local swap meet Sunday... carefully look over everything you decide is what you think is what you're looking for...
I picked up a box with headlight reflectors that appeared to be one bulb reflectors for my '31 that had all of the silver gone (reflectors were a nice shiny brass color); to replace the (very) cheap repros I have...
I only looked closely at the first one in the box... quick glance at the second looked similar.
Turns out they were not a set. Not the same type and definitely not in the same condition.
The 'too good to be true' price should have set off alarms...
One has the channel for the lens gasket fully intact with "Top" stamped at the top and "Ford Twolite Reflector" stamped at the bottom in the trough of the channel.
The other has most of the outer edge of the channel gone, with portions of the trough intact , but no words of any kind stamped into it.
The socket 'passage' are of different construction between the two. Stamped version has a single slot; other has three slots...
Completely my error for not pulling both out of the box to look at - the one on top was the good condition, the one under the packing material was the bad one.
Opinions on whether thinking is these (or at least the one) could be an original with all the silver gone?
Mostly posted for the benefit of other 'newbies' to reinforce the 'buyer beware' doctrine...
I picked up a box with headlight reflectors that appeared to be one bulb reflectors for my '31 that had all of the silver gone (reflectors were a nice shiny brass color); to replace the (very) cheap repros I have...
I only looked closely at the first one in the box... quick glance at the second looked similar.
Turns out they were not a set. Not the same type and definitely not in the same condition.
The 'too good to be true' price should have set off alarms...
One has the channel for the lens gasket fully intact with "Top" stamped at the top and "Ford Twolite Reflector" stamped at the bottom in the trough of the channel.
The other has most of the outer edge of the channel gone, with portions of the trough intact , but no words of any kind stamped into it.
The socket 'passage' are of different construction between the two. Stamped version has a single slot; other has three slots...
Completely my error for not pulling both out of the box to look at - the one on top was the good condition, the one under the packing material was the bad one.
Opinions on whether thinking is these (or at least the one) could be an original with all the silver gone?
Mostly posted for the benefit of other 'newbies' to reinforce the 'buyer beware' doctrine...
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