Original Headlights
I can shoot a picture of the decal when I get back home.
Great, would love to see it.
Re the datecodes what I know of is that there should be three digits at the top of the lamp. Like you said 132 is week 13 of 1972. I'm looking for late 64 and very early 1965 lamps. But what about the other codes I sent you. Is that later production or what? I'm not sure what they stands for when you have a R19 or J95 on top
Please re-read my comments about inkstamps and codes on sealed beams; I addressed all of this. It is not the case that there "should be three digits" at the top of the lamp. Sometimes there are, and sometimes there aren't, and sometimes there's something else.
What is the codes on the ones in the pictures?
Already answered this, too.
I just want to come down to a point where I know, this is the way it was from the factory! The reason is simply that I'm writing an reference manual for 1964 to 1966 Darts and I want it tobe correct
Be very, very, very careful writing a reference book. It's a much bigger job than it seems. It is extremely easy to include guesses and assumptions and received wisdom and observations from looking at one or two or three cars as "facts", and it is extremely difficult to verify a great many details such as the brand of headlamp originally installed.
"How it was from the factory" depends on which factory built it, on what date, for what market (cars built for Canada got different equipment than cars built for the US, which got different equipment than cars built for export to Sweden, which got different equipment than cars built for export to France, etc.). How it was from the factory also depends on random chance. When 273-2bbls were being assembled, whichever carburetor happened to be in stock and next in line got used—a Carter BBD or a Stromburg WW3. Same with 225s; they'd get a Holley 1920 or a Carter BBS. Ignition coils, too, came from a few different suppliers. Same with headlamps. And those guys who spend ridiculous sums of money to get a custom-made crayon with exactly the shade of orange (or whatever) they think is "correct" for the slash mark on their rear axle? They're delusional. There was no "correct" color for that crayon. It was whatever the rear axle inspector had in his hand. They weren't about to stop the line because he used up a crayon and another one of exactly the same shade wasn't available.
I'm building the car back to the condition it had when it left the plant in LA in January of 1965.
Was it built for export, or for the US market?
