Autogeek Headlights

Well in the garage with me today I got my good buddy Rick Schmidt from National Parks, Depot Rick. Great to see you man. Great to see you too, Dennis I would have to say, let there be light. Yes. We're here to talk about light bulbs and all the different options that we have from serious concours restoration to Lets have fun. To let's have fun drivers, to the heavy Resto-mod crowd. We've kinda got a range that covers everybody here. A little bit for everybody. Now these look like these look like the classics. Those are Classics, and I've got classics here for both Ford and GM. We'll start with the GM over there, back in the sixties the GM's when the cars rolled off, the assembly line came with what are referred to as these T3 headlights and the T3 you can see here in the triangle, in the center, it says T3 that's an original show, correct bulb. And we sell those in kits. We have, we sell kits that are either a pair of the large seven inch bulb or four of the smaller five three quatre inch bulbs for the dual headlamp setups because GM was doing both all through the sixties. Well, now, these are, these are Fords, but they're different. Are they from different years or? They're Different for, years and years and years all we've had available are the Ford lamps that have the printed Ford script in the middle. But back in the fifties and sixties Ford was drawing headlamp bulbs from several different manufacturers including Tongue Sole and General Electric. Right? And depending on who they were getting the bulbs from and depending on, the years sometimes they had this printed Ford script on them. And sometimes they had the Ford script actually molded in the glass. Scott Drake just recently came out with these in their real hot seller. It's a nice halogen bulb. It doesn't have any other giveaway markings on it. And it's got the correct Ford script molded into it. And then how about this? This is an old street rotting standard and Resto-mod standard right here. It's the, the tri-bar headlamp. And these are halogen headlamps. They have a replaceable bulb in here. So, so when you burn it out, you get to keep your house and you just have to replace the bulb. We've been selling those suckers for years and yeah. Very popular too Real popular with the Resto-mod and the Street-rod crowd It's nice having a replaceable bulb. You don't have to stick everything else out You just pop the bulb out. More seal beam? It looks like seal beam Well, Yes and no. We've got, these are Xenon options. The Xenon bulbs actually run brighter wider and run cooler than the old halogen technology. This is a seal beam Xenon that we get from Wagner and it's got more range, better spread of light. It's just a step up from the, from the halogens. There's no markings on it to make it a Concourse correct. It's a replacement bulb, but this is a sealed beam. Or we've got these deltas right here which are halogens that where you can, it's a capsule and you can replace the bulbs and keep your housing and service it. We sell service bulbs, but they do come already from in the box with a blue bulb installed. But you can get clears? We sell the bulbs in blue and clears as replacements That's slick a looking light, then you'd leave this there. You just pop the bulbs out. This goes out, you get a new unit. So we've got two Xenon options, seal beam and a one where you can replace the bulbs and keep the capsule ongoing. Okay. Now this cracks me up though. Now, we're really get into the custom stuff and if anybody's been into a cruisin' lately I'm sure they've seen some of these led halo lamps that are coming on the market. And we've got a really slick kit here. We've got them either in where the LEDs around the perimeter are just white but we've also got them where the LEDs can be switched to colors via this remote control right here. And as you can see there's 16 different color options that you have here. All of those are in there? Yes. Coloring, 21 LEDs that run around the perimeter of the light. You'd simply wire, the led loop into your parking light circuit so that when you turn your parking light on, you get your halo and you can switch to whatever color suits you. And then of course, that stays on when you continue just like your parking lamp stay on when you continue to turn the headlamps on. I, you know, and I've seen these on cars so they are pretty trick. I mean, yeah. So whether you're doing, you know, Concourse correct you know, just kind of upgrading technology or wild and crazy NPD Has got all those choices for you. Yeah. It's been very illuminating. I must say.