hella light - id please

[advtracing]

just trying to id this light , through grill style but no model . correct for swb/lwb?

[Allen Henderson]

John,

Please measure the diameter of the glass lens and the total diameter including the chrome housing and "report back." I believe you'll find one of the dimensions is about 118mm, making these..but not quite (too bad) so-called "118 Driving Lights." Why "not quite?" see the little screws in the front?, not Porsche OEM...as far as I know. Porsche lights of that era have a clamp the holds the front bezel to the housing and no screw is viable from the front view. Perhaps our light guru Michael will chime in? So these are, in essence ersatz Porsche driving lights. "Real" Porsche lights below. Thanks.

-Allen-

[70SATMan]

John, That is a 6 in Hella which was a size used primarily on Mercedes. However, that exact model of early H1 driving light did show up in a couple of Porsche factory photo shoots of the 67S in a TTG fashion. I've never seen that size officially delivered by Porsche but, they did look at it. Interestingly they used an early bracket that went through the standard grills. No cut outs.

I have a pair of them myself. I wouldn't hesitate to use them for either SWB or LWB but, obviously with the use of the smaller 118s officially from the factory, the larger lights lend themselves more to a SWB period use.

[advtracing]

Cheers for the info, unfortunality this one is an orphan and I was checking as if correct it may suit as a spare/replacement for someone.