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I can only assume a large portion of you have seen this post or it's aftermath floating around some of the s-chassis groups on Facebook. For those that haven't, a dude used late 80s Chevy headlights on his Silvia front end conversion and it's making the internet explode. Here's the original post:



There have been two responses to this
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Response B -

So really, what do you guys and girls think? Dumbest thing ever or smart move? I'll start.. Personally I thought it was pretty clever and for a few reasons I'll elaborate on.

-Obviously for starters is the ever rising prices of bricks, it's a very cost effective option for this front end that also doesn't happen to, in my opinion, look half bad compared to some of the other stuff people have been known to use in place of sil headlights.

-Another reason is if this were to become popular, I believe it will actually help preserve the sets of bricks that are still out there. A lot of nice sets got completely destroyed in one way or another whether there life ended on a battle torn track car or on a vehicle that was totaled on the road. Which leads to my last thought.

-If your car is a dedicated track weapon I think it's a great idea. Your planning on beating and banging the car up anyway, you're going to be a lot less disappointed when you crack or explode a $50 headlight on the track than a genuine set of bricks. Most track cars don't have the best body panels and gaps/fitment as it is, so the lights not fitting perfect seem to be less of a concern here.

I'll end this by saying, if your car is built to look nice and clean with light street duty, I'd still rather see real bricks on it.

To the owner of the vert in question and OP of the original post, I'm sure you're on here, NM local here. Saw you drive No Coast this past year where I first saw your car and I thought it looked awesome! I'll admit here, when I saw the car In person, I had no idea those were not real bricks lol

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