Vintage fog light setup? Pics?

[atye]

I am going to be taking my 1970 F100 back to a more vintage look than it has now. I work for an aftermarket lighting company (a Hella-good one... wink, wink) and have access to all shapes and sizes of driving/fog lights. What I'm looking for is old pics/scans of early '70's Fords with aftermarket (add-on) fog lights. I'm looking to see where they were mounted, were they mainly round or rectangular, etc. I'm not looking for roll-bar mounted lights, just whatever folks were adding to the front bumper area back in the day.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[fordman]

they were probably rectangle back then.

[atye]

they were probably rectangle back then.

That's what I am thinking, too, but I'd love to see some pics for ideas on where to put them.

[Doug F]

Everything was round back then... I was at a friend's place and he has dealer brochures from the late 50s to the late 70s and there is ZERO pictures or mention of fog lights etc! I went through every brochure!
They only mention spot lights; here are an example of period spot lights:




Mustang fogs in 67 and 68 were round. It wasn't until the early 70s until the Mustang switched to rectangular fog lights.

Here are a good pair of Lucas lamps;
http://jollyrogersmotors.com/node/136

[BobbyFord]

I have some old Hella rectanglular halogen lights in the garage somewhere. I've had them for at least 25 years.

[forrestbump]

My preference was and is Perlux 200T's which are round and about 6" in diameter. I've been using them since the late sixties. Look at 18 wheelers, usually mounted low in the front bumper. The louvers inside direct the light pattern down low, makes them work great in the fog, in dusty conditions and at night...no glare back.

Truckers know what their doing with fog lights, that's how I learned about the Perlux 200T's.

Sorry, NO pictures.

[atye]

Thanks for all of the replies!

Here is what I have gone with for now... an older set of Hella 175's. I've painted my grille inserts silver (gonna paint the mount tabs black to hide them) and hope to begin polishing the grille itself pretty soon. Trying to do a little to the truck every day or two...

[mk]

Everything was round back then...
Mustang fogs in 67 and 68 were round. It wasn't until the early 70s until the Mustang switched to rectangular fog lights...

You're right, Doug, the stock Mustangs had round lights. Starting in '68, Lucas or Marchal supplied these rectangle lights for the Shelbys, California Specials and the XR7-G Cougars



A '68 truck I bought a few years ago had some ancient round chrome diecast foglights on it.


mike

[ezernut9mm]

closest thing i can do for you:

[Doug F]

closest thing i can do for you:

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Those are the ones I was thinking about... I personally am getting some round ones by Marchal or Cibie for my 67. Yellow is a Fog light and White is a driving light.

[Doug F]

I was going through an older True Blue Trucks magazine and there was an article on a Bump that was a sad barn find... The barn collapsed on top of it, but it had, what looked like, OEM optional fog lights like the ones Ezernut posted. The article said the truck was loaded with options.