Modern lighting, vintage cars: What could've been?

Kinja'd!!! "yamahog" (yamahog)
05/27/2014 at 09:19 • Filed to: None

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Anyone else wonder what mid-20th-century designers could've done if they weren't limited to standard circular reflectors for headlights, taillights, and indicators? If they had access to the much more versatile LEDs and diffusers we have nowadays? I'm picturing chrome accents neatly integrating lights as well, maybe even in non-standard colors, and it is gorgeous. Siiigh. I'd like to mock something up but don't have the proper software to do any justice to the model.

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Kinja'd!!! mr_gofast > yamahog
05/27/2014 at 09:27

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imagining a ford model T with led lights


Kinja'd!!! yamahog > mr_gofast
05/27/2014 at 09:33

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Or an early Rolls...


Kinja'd!!! Frank Grimes > yamahog
05/27/2014 at 09:59

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Or a tucker with those fancy porsche headlights that move with the steering.