was there a factory wire mesh screen for the Cibie hood light?

[southbay356]

Hi

I was wondering if there ever was a factory wire mesh cover for the hood mounted lights ?

I have seen many that have had good sized rock chips in the glass,

thanks for the info

Dave

[CamBiscuit]

Dave

Not exactly wire but I think these were an option...

[Soterik]

Looks like you have a fog type concave lens in those lights, rather than the typical "clear driving" lens w/ a convex lens. I don't think those covers would work on the usual convex lens we see. I'm going to put a sheet of clear film over mine sometime soon.

Eric

[CamBiscuit]

Eric

Not my lights! The concave shape and the asking price were enough to put me off those covers! I'm with you on the clear film until someone makes a reasonably priced yellow cover.

I bought some protective film (about 3mm thick) for my H1's and will do the same for the Cibies I think

[dazarooney]

If anyone needs some wire mesh you can try here:

sheet mesh

[210bhp]

Looks like you have a fog type concave lens in those lights, rather than the typical "clear driving" lens w/ a convex lens. I don't think those covers would work on the usual convex lens we see. I'm going to put a sheet of clear film over mine sometime soon.

Eric

Turn the covers over, mount the tabs the other cover surface and they will fit a convex lens.

Regards
Mike

[RSwannabe]

I was running hood mounted cibis on my car for a few years with the stock convex lenses. I got a number of rock ships in them. I made some wire guard inserts the fit in my trim rings to achieve the effect you are asking about. The wire guards are slightly convex. I actually use flat lensed modern lights in my cibie bodies that give much better light. The flat lens surface gives a little more clearance for the wire guards. I'm not sure if the wire guard would work with a stock convex lens.

You can see the guards in the picture below.

[John Z Goriup]

I've been looking for fog / driving-light rock-guards like that for years........without success. I've always wondered why the aftermarket 356 style mesh grilles for headlights, ( photo #1 ) didn't continue into the 911 era, and why no one thought to make them for Cibie or Marshal lights.

In Nov. '09 some friends schlepped me along to Las Vegas to the SEMA show, where I made a point to take photos of displays that I simply knew I had to have for future reference.

Case in point, the polished, stainless steel, hand-made mesh grilles ( photo #2, samples shown were custom re-placements for KIA grilles ) appear to be made exactly along the lines of the 356 headlight guards. It probably wouldn't be a big challenge at all to give them the correct "dome" shape to fit the Cibies and attach some mounting tabs for a proper, more permanent installation. The salesman assured me they have a wide choice of wire diameter for the "border frame" available, as well as a large selection of mesh patterns, thickness, opening size, and can accommodate virtually any shape.

I've also thought about discussing an engine lid grille and some horn-grille mesh inserts for Ruprecht at the same time with them.

[mcampuzano]

These are other type of after market vintage grilles, used for Marchal fog/driving lights:

[RSwannabe]

I just found a better picture of the ones I made.