Headlight-Parking light fixture - Replacement?

Never worked right for me so I rewired them into amber driving lights.

Yes, that could be a possible work around....

Local auto parts stores usually have replacement sockets in a variety of mounting schemes.  One of those is a "press in" where you would mount the socket from the underside of the bucket.  Here is a good example:

https://www.wiringdepot.com/st...istant-Neoprene.aspx

Some versions are press ion, others require a separate mounting plate riveted in, others are twist-lock and so on.  Look at your headlight and imagine what would work and go find one.  I don't know if there is enough room between the headlight assy and the fiberglass bucket it sits in to accept that socket, but there are all sorts of others - literally hundreds of different versions available.  

Try googling "Automotive socket and pigtail assemblies"

You should get a bunch of hits and something should work for you.

I looked up the socket section of a Standard Motor Products "Engine Management" parts catalog and there must be 20 pages of sockets of all sorts.

Good hunting....

I have Euro style and have not had an issue.

Wow, Gordon, that's a great site....but that's coming from a guy who thinks the McMaster catalog is good bathroom reading.

Don’t get a complex….

I visited my brother’s bathroom once, years ago, and he had a snowmobile engine racing parts catalog sitting in there.  

I guess that’s part of what it takes to build a snowmobile engine with 30% more power than my Speedster.    😳

Is this the fender hunk on driver's side that you had replaced?  Looks like bulb holder is hitting the bottom edge of the fiberglass headlight bucket.  Perhaps you can bend the small metal tab (riveted to upper headlight bucket) so the light fixture sits a little higher.  You could also take that white cell foam (like from TV shipping box) and make a collar to protect it.

Or if the lights look level you can change to modern lower plastic sockets and insert LED bulbs.  Hella makes an H4 headlamp that includes a City lamp in the head light reflector - so that lamp could be eliminated.

7" Round W/ City Light H4 Hella E Code Headlamp Lens - Kit Comes With 2 Lamps - Boots + Hella H4 Bulbs - Fluted Glass (mk1autohaus.com)

@WOLFGANG posted:

Is this the fender hunk on driver's side that you had replaced?  Looks like bulb holder is hitting the bottom edge of the fiberglass headlight bucket.  Perhaps you can bend the small metal tab (riveted to upper headlight bucket) so the light fixture sits a little higher.  You could also take that white cell foam (like from TV shipping box) and make a collar to protect it.

Or if the lights look level you can change to modern lower plastic sockets and insert LED bulbs.  Hella makes an H4 headlamp that includes a City lamp in the head light reflector - so that lamp could be eliminated.

7" Round W/ City Light H4 Hella E Code Headlamp Lens - Kit Comes With 2 Lamps - Boots + Hella H4 Bulbs - Fluted Glass (mk1autohaus.com)

Nope, this was on the good "side" .... when the body shop guys put back the bucket assembly to paint the car, they messed up the wiring. I pre-wired the damaged side before I took it over to them to have the work done, so they couldn't screw that one up. It's always something .....

Well after spending some time on the internet (as some of you suggested) and making a few trips to the various car stores around town....l. I have come up with nada. (major problems were the after-market-sockets were to deep for the application) So good old fashion Yankee ingenuity prevailed, after looking at all the parts I had and with a little bit of observation, salvaging, bending, and super glue I was able to put humpdy-dumpty back together again!  If it is better than new is questionable but operational. Installed everything back into the car and it is all working.....only time will tell. Thanks to everyone for your suggestions they were all very helpful.

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Congrats, Larry.

Most things on these cars can be fixed with “a little bit of observation, salvaging, bending, and superglue”. (I think my car was constructed that way in the first place.)

Electrical problems, at least, are usually solved that way, except for the horn circuit, which requires applications of chicken bones, incantations, and communications with the spirit world.

If there is one saving grace here, it is the total absence of oddly shaped, mysterious black boxes sprouting bundles of wires just waiting to send death codes to an unseen and unknowable central computer if disturbed.

The more you poke around, the more trouble you get into and get yourself out of, the more you learn.

Well done, Larry!

I was wondering if there was too little space in that headlight bucket - I know it's pretty close, for sure.

Even if we all bring some creativity and resourcefulness to the party when we buy a replica car, we certainly grow a lot during ownership, usually out of necessity!