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Police spotlight mount on ‘57 Ford (thru fender not thru pillar)?
23rd October 2007
Does anybody know how the spotlight was mounted on a ‘57 Ford police car? (See photo here: http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww300/GFC-911/spotlight.png)
Modern ones mount through the pillar between the windshield and front door, but this mounts through fender under windshield due to wrap-around nature of windshield.
If you were to mount a modern one this way, the control arm for it would go right through the dashboard! So…
Where and how were the control arms mounted inside the vehicle? Was it some sort of curved mount, a cable system, or what? And where would the control handle have been located?
Finally, any idea what make and model the light would be?
Reason for asking: Restoring a classic ‘57 Ford to its glory days in the Illinois State Police, and want to install a proper, period-appropriate spotlight as part of the restoration. Gotta make it look “just right,” y’know?
Thanks!!
Correct link to picture is
http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww300/GFC-911/spotlight.png
Seth
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Wha……? =/
Comment by renegaderoncher — October 25, 2007 @ 5:12 pm
Good luck with this, thanks for the better picture link, here’s a similar one I found on the same year Ford.
It looks like the control handle is right between the vent chrome and the rear view mirror. It also looks like the whole thing is slanted downward slightly to go under the windsheild. I can’t help but wonder is this was something done at the factory, because that looks like a lot of work for a government garage to do. It looks like there may be a chrome strip on the fender around the spotlight cradle. Have you contacted Ford about this? There may also be brochures on this floating around somewhere. Also try , they may have some pictures that show how this is set up.
About spot lights, I have two on my antique fire truck and I see these all over the place when the Auto Fair comes to Concord NC. It looks like you might need something longer than what I have. Mine are aprox 12 inches, if that is the control handle in the Baltimore picture, that control shaft would be almost 2 feet. The controls are not rocket science so I would think a good machinist could piece two together and make it work.
For other info you may want to try these groups.
The collect ambulances, hearses, etc and
I’m a member here and we collect fire apparatus.
Good luck and hope this of some help to you.
Comment by Lastdue — October 28, 2007 @ 4:59 am