ok fellas I'm back with another way to spend money 
I am looking for brackets to attach lights instead of having a front bumper.
I attached 2 pictures as an example of what I am trying to achieve. I am wondering if anyone knows where to find brackets that work. As always Thanks for the help guys
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OK, here you go. 3/16" Stainless Steel Plate, cut with a Saber Saw and bent with a $#!+ load of heat, but once polished they look fantastic.
Mounted directly to the body with Stainless 5/16" Carriage Bolts for that smooth look, with a piece of custom-cut truck tire inner tube between the bracket and body (so's I don't scratch Pearl's paint). Finished off with a stainless braided wire conduit that looks suspiciously like a Kitchen Faucet water hose (which it is).
These things are RUGGED! What I wanted were driving light counts that didn't cause the lights to flicker around when moving - these are rock steady.
Total cost, about $20 bucks for everything.
Those are really sharp, Gordon!
Gordon? More like MacGyver!
Give him a paper clip and a bobby pin, and watch him go.
Speaking of MacGyver, "The Martian" is coming out in theaters on October 16th.
You wanna see a real MacGyver-type guy? Go see that movie....
So I usually get inspired for car things that I do by the Hot Rod guys (and I bet Merklin does, too!) and some of the cars on here. There are a couple of Rod builders near me who build cars which you sometimes see at local shows. These are the cars that, as you slowly walk around them, you see 5 or 6 different things which make you say, "Wow...". And then, each time you take another lap around, you keep seeing 4 or 5 more things that make you say, "Wow..."
On my car, ya gotta make it look like somebody cars......ME!
You might even try a sturdy guage piece of stainless corner guard. Cheap and easy to manipulate, like some of my old girl friends.
Aluminum angle would probably work--and is easier to work. $8 would do it.
3 x 3-inch by quarter-inch stainless angle is $30 for a foot, which is enough for three or four brackets, at least. If you have
1. a hacksaw
2. a drill
3. a piece of emory cloth (to de-burr the cuts)*
you can make this part.
*optional--and better: a grinding wheel with a wire attachment
Yes, yes, yes.....all that stuff would 'work', but, as Justin said;
"Wouldn't have that nice looking bend radius to it though."
And as Stan Ostergard, the machinist who showed me how to use a Bridgeport Turret Lathe always told me: "Make it look like somebody cared."
I could have used angle iron or aluminum, but aluminum wouldn't have given me the anti-vibration support and the bracket would have looked utilitarian on a way-classy car.
I could have only used two bolts in a horizontal line to mount to the body, but the lights would have jiggled at road speeds.
I could have used a straignt-sided, square piece of bent metal instead of multiple compound curves, but it wouldn't have looked anywhere near as nice because the rest of the car is all multiple compounfd curves - kinda like my wife!
They're just one more thing that gets that "Wow..." When someone looks at the car. Every time you look at it, there is something else that catches your eye. Kinda like when they realize that the shape of the third brake light housing is copied in the shape of the roll bar - stuff like that.
"Krazy": I'm not particularly interested in another bespoke set of driving light mounts so, sorry, no. Find a local fab or muffler shop, take my pictures over and ask if they can make a pair. I made those with a HD bench vice, a pair of channelock piers, a BIG friggin hammer, a MAPP Gas torch, a sabre saw and the piece of metal. Finished fair price (in stainless steel) should be somwhere between $60 and $100 bucks for the two (because stainless steel is a bitch to work like this - it is too hard and brittle).
Ask around, and I'm sure you'll find someone local to do them for you.
It's the little details that make a build special, and Gordon has created many of them.
