Thought this might be the best spot to ask this. I was tinkering in the garage today and pulled down the box with my headlights and hardware to clean them up for when the car comes home from the paint shop. I was expecting the headlights to be mismatched at best and possibly some burnt out too. I was quite surprised to find that all four sealed bulbs were not only working and in overall good condition overall, they were a perfect matched set of Wagner non-halogen bulbs. The markings on the lamps and everything about them is matching.
My thinking is that these may actually be the factory original 79 headlights. Since Halogen bulbs took over the automotive world in around 1980 or so, it would seem probable that these are originals. I tried to search for that info and the consensus seemed to be that Ford used Sylvania or GE bulbs, not Wagner. It seems improbable however that someone cared enough to keep all four bulbs identical and of the original type given the car was hardly pristine in other respects. The car was just ten years old when I bought it and stripped it down, so it is conceivable that the headlights were still original. At any rate these seem to be a very nice set of early bulbs.
Anyone have any insight or can confirm or debunk this? Are these bulbs super rare and of value to those who want perfect restorations?
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