Brumby headlights

Pommiebrat · Post by **Pommiebrat** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 11:56 pm

I have acquired a GL (?) cycolps eye centre fog light and grill to go on my brumby/brat/mv but I can't find the right headlight bezels and corresponding corner lights to fit. The standard 198 ones have the wrong shape where they butt up to the centre grill. I think I need early ('81-'82) shape bezels - they seem to be more diamond-shaped. Does anyone have a part number or know which vehicles had them?

Cheers,

John

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 8:33 pm

some pics of low KB would be of interest. Never seen anything but single rectangular light each side or twin each side, no other light accessory that fits in anywhere else. Have seen an early MY round headlight front added to single headlight brumby looks good

Post by **TOONGA** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 8:59 pm

heres a pic of a brumby with one in place

http://www.indysworld.com/80s/fun/projectrudy/no5.jpg

and this pic form another album

album here

http://s976.photobucket.com/albums/ae243/1982subaru/

TOONGA

AlpineRaven · Post by **AlpineRaven** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:32 pm

TOONGA wrote:heres a pic of a brumby with one in place

http://www.indysworld.com/80s/fun/projectrudy/no5.jpg

and this pic form another album

album here

http://s976.photobucket.com/albums/ae243/1982subaru/

TOONGA

Never seen a light in the middle.. hehe... Thats different!
Cheers
AP

Pommiebrat · Post by **Pommiebrat** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:56 pm

Attached is a picture of what I've got. I've seen pictures from the Hatch patrol of early ea81 model hatches and wagons with the same grills but can't find the correct corner lights anywhere.

tex · Post by **tex** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 12:11 pm

I thought about bringing one back with me to aus and was under the impression it would go in easily enough although you need the frame that goes behind the "passing" light! although didn't look into it too much as I gave up on the idea before I found one!

Pommiebrat · Post by **Pommiebrat** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 6:53 am

Got the frame, the flip up cover, the switch and all the wiring its just the corner lights that fit in the different shaped headlight bezels that i need to finish it off

dfoyl · Post by **dfoyl** » Wed Feb 17, 2010 5:58 pm

You have a 1981 grille. Any 1981 "MY" indicators should fit. Good luck finding some, I recall seeing 1 1981 MY at a wreckers in the past 4 years and that was about 3 years ago. I actually have a decent 1981 grille sitting around here but no indicators

Simple rundown (ignoring GL/DL spec, Japanese dates vs AU dates vs USDM dates vs UK dates):

1980 : Single round headlights (1979 in Japan)
1981 : Single rectangular headlights, >=====< grille
1982 : Single or dual rectangular rectangular headlights, straight-through \=====/ grille
1983 : Single or dual rectangular headlights, honeycomb grille

(I know some 1981's came with round headlights, etc - these are approximate year dates to keep it simple)

I'd suggest putting a plea out on usmb as that's about your best option for turning up a donor vehicle - maybe one of the regulars like edrach or barracuda will have something in their parts pile.

Dean.

Pommiebrat · Post by **Pommiebrat** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 12:01 am

Dean,

That is great info. Thanks very much for clarifying that for me - was starting to get very confused as to what I had got my hands on.

Cheers,

John