Modifying 68 barracuda hood mount signal housings

I have these 68 barracuda hood mount turn signals i want to use on my sons 69 coupe. Not even sure if these were offered on the 69 barracuda, or if they are 68 only. They are fairly pitted up. Beyond rechroming however still useable, and i dont really want to replace the outer housings with new.

I was never a fan of em being chromed either. I dunno why except it just always seemed like an afterthought added to the hood IMHO. I like the look of the later body colored ones better. So being they were pitted up they took a trip to the sand blaster to strip them, and clean out the pitting.

At this time i decided to file off and remove the lower charactor line on the housings, and smooth and round off the angular edges to soften their look a bit. I plan on filling the cleaned out pitted spots w JB weld and bodywork it before applying some fluid resistant epoxy etch primer. Already primered the inside. Heres pix showing the one i am reworking next to the stock unmodified one. If i could modify them to ditch the visible back screw hole i would do that too.

So tell me whatcha think.
Thanks
Matt

Latest pix with smoothed one having the cleaned out pitting repaired with JB weld, and in primer for comparison

Looks pretty good.

Im liking it.
Temptation is there to blend mine right into the fenders.

I think it looks better, but still concidering my options with lopping off the end with the visible screw and doing a hidden mounting thing.

Been working in my head about the idea about cutting the visible screw end off. The center stud that holds the lightbulbs steel grounding plate inside the housing could be drilled and tapped for a 6-32 screw, and built up with JB weld around it to strengthen the stud a bit. Would have to sand blast the primer off on the inside to do this to get a good bite. That would be the second internal mounting hole as well as a ground. I would need to drill and tap that anyways for reassembly. If i dont use it as a mounting point i was going to tap it as a smaller 4-40 thread, and use button head allen screws to hold it together. These sit pretty flat against the hood, so it wouldent take much torque with a nut driver to secure them tightly and get a ground if i went with the hidden fastener route.

Anybody know if these were actually available on the 69 model? Or were they 68 only? I had a 68 fastback years ago that had them.

Heres a pic of a set of 70-71 B & E body ones. Kinda wanting mine to be similar to these in mounting and look, but mine will be more streamlined. The B & E body ones are kinda tall and would look out of place. I'm thinking painted body color mine will blend in with the hood.

moparmat2000 said:

I have these 68 barracuda hood mount turn signals i want to use on my sons 69 coupe. Not even sure if these were offered on the 69 barracuda, or if they are 68 only. They are fairly pitted up. Beyond rechroming however still useable, and i dont really want to replace the outer housings with new.

I was never a fan of em being chromed either. I dunno why except it just always seemed like an afterthought added to the hood IMHO. I like the look of the later body colored ones better. So being they were pitted up they took a trip to the sand blaster to strip them, and clean out the pitting.

At this time i decided to file off and remove the lower charactor line on the housings, and smooth and round off the angular edges to soften their look a bit. I plan on filling the cleaned out pitted spots w JB weld and bodywork it before applying some fluid resistant epoxy etch primer. Already primered the inside. Heres pix showing the one i am reworking next to the stock unmodified one. If i could modify them to ditch the visible back screw hole i would do that too.

So tell me whatcha think.
Thanks
Matt

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Ought to be worth 3-4 tenths-------LOL