Wanted parts, Flash to Pass lights

Are you looking for an option that will work, or actual Cibie lights?

 

Mike, those are Cibie Aiport Series 35 fog lights. Very hard to find. Contact Daniel Stern Lighting, he would know.

 

They come up on eBay every so often.


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Hi Mike, I went looking for the Cibie 35's for my English 81 GTSi. It took me ages to get the correct ones with the chrome backs. I bought a NOS pair with the painted black backs (which may be correct for QV, I don't know) until I eventually came across a pair of correct lights at a substantially higher price. My learnings are as follows, the correct lights should have clear lenses, not diffused. I'm not sure whether french cars etc had the yellow fog lenses or not. The biggest issue i found is that a lot (most) of the lights for sale don't come with globe holders. These globe holders are NLA and have been for many years. to make it worse, there are two types of globe holders, a shallow depth (which the 35 require for correct beam focus) and a deep which a different model (cant remember the 78?) required.
I hunted every corner of the globe for the shallow holders for the 35's with black backs that I bought with no success. I eventually found a gentleman in Ireland that had a selection of NOS of the deep holders which I bought a couple of sets from just so the 35's would function as Flash To Pass lights as designed, even though the focus wouldn't be correct. It was about 2 years later I found someone selling NOS 35's (with chrome housings) in Ferrari boxes complete with globe holders and I bought them to finish the car off. I have the NOS black housing 35's with globes and deep globe holders, that I am more than happy to sell at a very affordable price if you're interested. Send me a PM and I'll photograph for you etc. Only downside is shipping from Australia wont be super cheap
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Mike ... I did this conversion about 10 years ago and looked for what seemed like ages but, never found the "clear lens" airports. I did find chrome backed "diffused lens" airports and used those. I know not the same, but was close enuff for me anyway. The thing I never found was the mounting brackets for the lights. The euro QVs have an L shaped bracket that is welded to the bumper supports on each side ... I made my own ... see pic. I got the fiberglass bumper from eBay and made my own mounting brackets for it. The grill came from an F Chat member, but can't remember who now.

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How did you mount these lights?

 

Are you sure you’re not going to get crazy amounts of vibration and the lights jumping with that much arm extension?

 

I've had my front off for a while, and can see the mounts. I'm pretty sure the factory one have a gusset. I'll see if I can find a pic...

 

Here you go
They extended the top radiator support tube and then mounted it off that
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Thanx !!!!

 

That looks a lot more solid - now unbolt it and paint it black
BTW, what are those headlights?

 

Congrats, those are as rare as a cheap professional major service...

Ciao

 

How are these lamps mounted as I have a pair NIB and I dont want to cut my grill?

Anybody know?