So one of the problems of late has been the whole projector headlight fitting issue. The problem was I waited so long for these custom headlights which came as 7″ only to find that once installed they were too large. We needed the Shelby 5 3/4″ headlights.

But all is not lost just yet. After surfing Mustangs Unlimited I noticed they had these headlight buckets especially for Eleanor kits. Whats even better is their related products include the headlights to go into them and wouldn’t you believe it they are 7″.

Headlight Bracket Assemblies, Pair for 1967-1968 Eleanor Mustang.

Allows easier installation of headlights on ours & others Eleanor Body Kits, by taking out the need for fabrication. Fits much better than fiberglass buckets & allows use of a conventional headlight bulb.

Here are the products linked to the headlight buckets:

HALOGEN 7″ HEADLIGHT 65/68 & 70/78 (HELLA)

HEADLIGHT BULB/LAMP 7″ 55 WATT XENON 65/68 & 70/73

HEADLIGHT BULB 7″ HI-LO 65/68 & 70/73

No mention of Shelby 5 3/4″

I’ve sent the link over to my builder and he has said we may be in luck, but we won’t know for another week or so as he is still on holidays (another reason why my personal updates are lacking)

So if this does in fact work we may purchase these and the lights we have will slip right in, fingers crossed. This would mean we wouldn’t need to send them back to the states to be re-fitted.

I’ll keep you all posted. But it seems I may be making an order soon. As there are other items I need to get from them including Shelby valve covers, original decals and some others.

OK so it’s a fact! I am an idiot. It pays to do your research and when you don’t you’ll get into the predicament i am in.

So I’ve spent several months and close to one thousand dollars and now we’ve figured out we have the wrong size lights!

Here is where I got confused. I was always under the impression Mustangs used 7″ round headlights and I never knew that Shelby’s had smaller lights of 5 3/4″ lights! And further to that I was unaware the Eleanor kit was based on the Shelby sizes.

So when we went to fit the lights the other day we found they were way to big! So now we have to buy the Shelby headlight buckets (Shown above) and round headlights to put in in the interim.

What I will try to do is have the projectors removed and redone in the 5 3/4″ lights. Anyone in Australia who does the kind of light work contact me, i really don’t have the patience to send them back to the states and wait another 6 months.

This certainly is a set back and we’ll have to move forward with standard lights for the moment. But we’ll have time later down the track to swap them over. The car will be sitting aside for a little while once she comes back from the body shop because I’ve just gotten the bill for all this body work and it’s NOT pretty.. let’s just say it’s over 10k.

So as you can understand I need to save a little bit of cash to pay this off. But don’t worry Toby’s car is going in as mine comes out so i will be updating you with that plus I have some more part orders to make.

OK, where do I start???? Things have gone South, read on I have had an interesting week.
I got home on Thursday from work, there was a message waiting for me from the guys who HAD the old girl to talk to them urgently. So I contacted them Thursday night and was told I had to come and look at the car as they had found problems. They would not tell me over the phone what was going on.

Now, just to give you a quick in-site to the plan, these guys were recommended and they also told me that they had a lot of experience in fiber glass and body kits. This is why I decided to let these guys do the work. Anyway, when I got there on Thursday night the kit had been fitted to the car and taped in place using “Duct tape”. This was just to see how the kit looked and how it fitted. These kits needed a lot of work to fit them, they just don’t fit straight on the car. Anyone with any knowledge of Fiber glass will know this, and also know what to do. These guys had “no idea” at all what to do – short story they told me Bull Shit about what they could do. These guys were trying to tell me that it was going to $AUD50,000 plus to do the work. And they also told me that the car was twisted and bent. We knew that the rear RH chassis rail needed to be pulled back into shape but the rest of the car is perfect.

These guys were trying to tell me that the car was stuffed because of the twist in the body and that it was going to cost thousands and thousands to fix that as well. And to top it all off – the guy who was in charge told me that the car was not worth anything because the body was twisted and he offered to buy the car and everything else for $AUD5000. It was at this point that I started to get a little angry and I was going to hurt someone.

So we turned up on Friday to collect the car and kit, etc and also told the guys that we were taking the car back, and if they tried to stop us we would be back with the Police.

Anyway, the old girl is back in my Shed this weekend and I am in talks with an old school panel beater who has retired now, but he will be coming out of retirement to work on the old girl. He has built quite a few Show cars and some of my good friend in the car club know him very well and he comes recommended.

I am not happy with these other guys – they told me that they had fixed the chassis rail at the rear and were well into fitting the kit, but again it was all BS.

So needless to say my heart skipped a few beats on this one, but all came together in the end. Last week the car was with the new guy and things are progressing well and i should have pictures this weekend, i promise!