Clear bumper lights?

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Clear bumper lights?

May 16, 2007, 12:41:12 AM

What years came with the clear bumper lights? I thought that it was 83 but while washing my 84 I found that the bumper lights say 83 on them. Are the clear ones from something older. Like say the Box birds or some other ford product? I know I've plenty of 83's with them but I'm sure that ford put them on something else. Does anyone know?

Clear bumper lights?

Reply #1 – May 16, 2007, 01:03:43 AM

I think the story is... only some of the '83's came with 'em. The plastic mold is probably the same between clears & ambers, so the 'casting' number might just be the same as the earlier clears. I'm pretty sure the firewall on my car has an E3 part number, too.

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Reply #2 – May 16, 2007, 02:19:15 AM

My '85 Cougar had clear lights. but my buddies '83 had amber ones

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Reply #3 – May 16, 2007, 02:22:17 AM

Wierd... an '85 with clear lights? I'm intrigued. Someone on this board mentioned reproducing clear lights... I'm interested in that for sure.

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Reply #4 – May 16, 2007, 03:03:12 AM

Here is a pic of it: I never put them in there, but I would have had they not been there.

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Reply #5 – May 16, 2007, 07:18:08 AM

Quote from: 1WLD BRD;147581

My '85 Cougar had clear lights. but my buddies '83 had amber ones

Yes, but they were Canadian cars, correct?

In the US, they were only on '83's.

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Reply #6 – May 16, 2007, 09:00:34 AM

my 84 had clear chuck may be right.. however my xr7's canadian and it has amber.

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Reply #7 – May 16, 2007, 09:15:29 AM

All 1983's and some early 1984's had clear, at least in the U.S.A. The part numbers for the amber lenses are for 1984, so any 1985-86 with clears had them purposely installed somewhere along the line. Most 1984's had amber. The amber p/n superceded the clear one.

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Reply #8 – May 16, 2007, 09:55:57 AM

So what you are saying is find a 83 with them in the junkyard. Damm is there anything else that might have used the same lights? I wonder if one of the Big truck lights from Peterson might work in that bumper spot. Things that make you go hummmmm!

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Reply #9 – May 16, 2007, 10:06:30 AM

I don't think any other Ford used that part.

Actually I'd thought about maybe putting aftermarket clear Chevy S-10 (the rounded trucks, made right before the Colorado) markers in the convertible. Never got a chance to do it...I don't know if the angles would be right either, but size-wise they're close to ours.

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Reply #10 – May 16, 2007, 06:43:17 PM

dunno know as much about it as Chuck and Eric, but I know my 83 has clear light! ...which happen to be busted or cracked on either side!

Frank M.

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Reply #11 – May 18, 2007, 01:29:56 AM

I've got Ambers on my '84, Switching to Clear if i can find some. :hick:

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Reply #12 – May 18, 2007, 11:47:07 PM

I was messing around on a smoke break at work and took a clear Peterson 426 Clear Kinda oval shaped backup light. It Looked like it would fit inside the bumper. I didn't have time to take things apart. It did look like we would have a very small gap in the very corners of the Rectagle in the bumper cover. I'm sure we would have to make a mounting braket to make them work. Besides that they are a sealed unit with only a one element bulb inside. It is also made to mount in a rubber groumet" It is a light from a Big rig trailer." I didn't have time to look into the book to see what they had that I could order.