Minor and
MAJOR updates.
Minor
Had the day off yesterday (working for a Bank has it's perks sometimes) so I rode out to Welcome to see what Rod Crafters has been doing to my truck. Unfortunately, Larry had not done anything to my truck and I was OK with that. He had other projects he was working on when I dropped mine off and he was finishing up some of those. He told me he was going to start late next week.
MAJOR As I have posted several times before, I have been looking for Mopar Direct Connection headlight covers for 2 1/2 - 3 years with no luck.
At a suggestion from Peter Jack earlier in this thread about fabricating some covers, I called Dan Warner on 2/16 and asked the question. He immediately came back with a big fat NO on fabricating some saying that I could only run the Mopar ones. When I hung up the phone I was dejected because I have been looking for quite a while.
Just for giggles I went to Google, again, and did a search for headlight covers with no luck. Next I the put in the Mopar part number P4120806 and started looking at what was returned. When I got to the 4th or 5th page I saw a link to eBay. I thought to myself that this was going to be an auction that ended 4 - 5 years ago but when I clicked on the link I just about had a heart attack. This was an active auction and the seller had 3 pairs of these covers. I did the buy now thing for 1 pair and then did the PayPal thing. The following morning, I called the seller and told him I wanted to get 2 pair and not just one.
I just received these today and all I can say is incredible. One box had been opened and the other had not.....Remember these are probably 25 - 30 years old and are in mint condition.
Ad from eBay:
Both boxes:
Part number:
Instructions:
Both covers:
Gaskets, mounting brackets and fastners:
I got these from
http://www.mmpar.com/StoreVBVS2011/default.aspx?CategoryID=24&selection=8 so if anyone is looking vintage NOS Mopar parts, I definately recommend them. Very easy to work with and very fast shipping.
Gregg
P.S.
I called Dan back after I did the buy it now thing on eBay and told him he must have been my good lucky charm......Guess I should have played the lottery as well, LOL.