I also made the headlight mounts. I cut the ends off the steering arms that I removed from the 47 spindles. The round end for the tie rods, with a short piece of arm. I welded them to the outsides of the f1 shock mounts and filled with weld and ground till they are kinda molded to the shock towers. The lights are stainless King Bee style lights. Probably imported........... well certainly imported. I did find some re pop King Bee headlight tags to put on them. I'm not gonna fool anybody, not trying, just thought it would be a neat touch. I want to make some sort of headlight bar. I think it needs it to look right, and also to tie the shock towers together. I want to make sure that the headlights don't bounce and maybe a v8 emblem in the center might look good too. I think I will just weld some 1/4" or 3/8" tabs on the insides and make a bolt in bar and use some stainless bolts with some cap nuts.

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I tried to get a shot of the headlight mount but couldn't get a clear pic. You can also see that I repainted the front end. I painted what would be chrome, if I was rich, silver. It is actually Metallic Silver, as per Duplicolor. Now maybe it's just me, but isn't metallic silver redundant. I have never seen silver paint that was not metallic. I'm not sure if it looks cheesy or not. I used to think so. Like who are your trying to kid, it don't look like chrome. But that being said I have seen it on a couple of rods and thought it looked OK. I still has to be clear coated though. Red would have been too much red, and the black just wasn't doing it for me. But by Spring it might be purple...........

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Well I guess that about covers it. Maybe a few other small bits, Brake pedal pad, exhaust manifolds actually bolted on, with gaskets and all......... And a heel pad for the accelerator. Threw in a couple of new pics outside so I could get the overview as it were.

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