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Old Jun 17, 2006 | 11:10 PM
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Kind of a far fetched odd idea but...

hey i was just thinking of something that could probably be really cool. somehow fitting either firebird flip up lights or other flip up lights into regular camaro headlight bezels. i was thinking it would give almost like the late 60's RS lights. now i know pretty much "anything" is possibe with know-how, the right tools, and of course, money, but what do you guys think of this, good/ bad??
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Old Jun 17, 2006 | 11:34 PM
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i think it would look kinda funny, though i appreciate the old skool idea.
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Old Jun 18, 2006 | 08:22 PM
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yea i was thinking about that and i thought that the lights are completly diffrent sizes, i was thinking though if you could make it flush when closed (kinda like the IROC race cars were) and then of course opening

thanks for the feedback
Joe
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Old Jun 19, 2006 | 06:35 PM
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I thought about that idea too but it would disrupt the lines of the car and when they were open it would make your car look like a slutty girl with long eyelashes.
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Old Jun 19, 2006 | 08:35 PM
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Would be kinda cool to have something like the flush-fitting headlight blackouts that slide back.
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Old Jun 19, 2006 | 11:41 PM
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do you mean like a le baron?
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Old Jul 15, 2006 | 01:05 AM
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Very similar to many of my other posts, shutters. I like the look of blackouts, but this week i'm stuck on shutters.
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Old Jul 15, 2006 | 11:25 AM
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Originally Posted by StreetRoc85 350
... it would make your car look like a slutty girl with long eyelashes.
What's wrong with a slutty girl with long eyelashes? As long as you don't intend to keep it....
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Old Jul 15, 2006 | 01:03 PM
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I actually saw a car at a local car show about 10 yrs ago with the shutter idea. They looked like a typical headlight cover when closed, but with the flip of a switch they would open kinda like your household blinds. I asked him if there was any problem with seeing at night and he said, that they were slightly more dim, but, not enough to affect seeing what was a head of him. He said that he had somewhere around 100 hrs in them though!!!
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Old Jul 18, 2006 | 11:54 PM
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A far-fetched idea would be to have clear headlight covers that "polarize" to black...but that would probably cost a fortune to do
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Old Jul 21, 2006 | 03:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Firebat
do you mean like a le baron?
actually yes, pretty much exactally like that
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Old Jul 21, 2006 | 05:43 PM
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Theres a thread about these for sale on ebay, but he couldn't get them https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/auto...-new-post.html
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