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1960fury
Posted 2015-08-18 8:07 AM (#487445)
Subject: inner headlights?



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Location: northern germany		someone has an explanation why the inner headlights are on and the outers not in this clip? actually this is not possible the way they came wired from the factory. could be a 50s florida thing but the non mopars are regularly lighted. 60 plymouth, 60 dodge, 59 imperial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9ChMimDna4&index=10&list=FL0gdUx4gf...
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wizard
Posted 2015-08-18 8:37 AM (#487447 - in reply to #487445)
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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island		That looks totally wrong Sid - you have a good eye for details - I perhaps would have missed it.

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Boris56
Posted 2015-08-18 2:17 PM (#487464 - in reply to #487445)
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lozrox58
Posted 2015-08-19 3:04 AM (#487500 - in reply to #487445)
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Location: Newcastle Australia		I don't have an explanation, but I have seen it twice on inports to Oz. One 59 Dodge and a 59 Imperial. Both had RH and LH head light assemblies swapped to the other side and the wiring swapped so that the inners were Hi/Lo and the outers were Hi only.
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soiouz
Posted 2015-08-19 7:35 AM (#487511 - in reply to #487445)
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Location: Montreal, Canada		I would never trust something out of a Hollywood movie.. They might have disconnected the outer pair so the headlights wouldn't be too bright in the shot.
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1960fury
Posted 2015-08-19 7:57 AM (#487514 - in reply to #487511)
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soiouz - 2015-08-19 7:35 AM

I would never trust something out of a Hollywood movie.. They might have disconnected the outer pair so the headlights wouldn't be too bright in the shot.


this could it be. but it would mean the cars had the high beams on, so if too bright, why using the high beams and why not disconnecting the inners so that it would look natural and the cars still had the low and high beams? makes no sense. i guess i have to live with it that i will never know

reminds me of the film "the marriage go round" with a pre production 60 fury with, for some reason, disconnected tail/license lights.

Edited by 1960fury 2015-08-19 7:58 AM
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1960fury
Posted 2015-08-19 8:00 AM (#487515 - in reply to #487500)
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lozrox58 - 2015-08-19 3:04 AM

I don't have an explanation, but I have seen it twice on inports to Oz. One 59 Dodge and a 59 Imperial. Both had RH and LH head light assemblies swapped to the other side and the wiring swapped so that the inners were Hi/Lo and the outers were Hi only.


not easily possible in 60 plymouths as the high beam only (inner) wiring wouldn't be long enough.
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soiouz
Posted 2015-08-19 1:33 PM (#487542 - in reply to #487514)
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1960fury - 2015-08-19 7:57 AM

soiouz - 2015-08-19 7:35 AM

I would never trust something out of a Hollywood movie.. They might have disconnected the outer pair so the headlights wouldn't be too bright in the shot.


this could it be. but it would mean the cars had the high beams on, so if too bright, why using the high beams and why not disconnecting the inners so that it would look natural and the cars still had the low and high beams? makes no sense. i guess i have to live with it that i will never know

reminds me of the film "the marriage go round" with a pre production 60 fury with, for some reason, disconnected tail/license lights.



Yeah, I thought of that too.. but aren't the inner light "aimed" higher than the outer pair?.. If so, since the camera is almost ground level in that shot, it would make sense to use only the lights that are aimed higher.

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