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    Senior Member Scott A's Avatar
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    looking for opinion on front light colors

    hello, I am sharing and asking for an opinion.
    I know this is not for everyone.
    I am in California, (not France), and this is a 71 coupe, that had no rust but very poor paint. So I had to strip and respray.
    the car is olive.
    the car is also themed for an early 70s Le Mans 24 race period...with a few badges and decals celebrating the times i could visit the race with my brothers.


    I am looking at the color of the front lights.
    yellows and whites. I have both white and yellow bulbs for the cibie pallas, as well as the covers.
    I think the orange turn signal is a clash, which started this whole thing.

    the color pattern on the images are from top H1 light to bottom fog.

    this is the work that I like to do, to evaluate different ideas, and change things just a tiny bit.
    any opinions?

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    Last edited by Scott A; 11-12-2019 at 11:26 AM.

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    I would vote for the unmentioned option... White/White/White …
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    Thanks Chuck, I will probably end up doing white white orange white.
    Which will send me buying some white 139 fogs.

    I like trying to stretch myself, but often come back to common.
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    IMHO:

    Definitely white on the headlights. Hood and fog lights could go either white or yellow.

    I'd keep the current euro turn signal lenses (orange/clear), but only if you convert the light housing so euro-spec as well, so that the clear part is only the parking light, and the turn signal lights up the orange part. If you want to keep the US-spec single bulb light housing, I'd go US-spec solid orange lenses.
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