Topic: 1970 Sport Lamp Bulb Color

[1970 Snake]

This may seem like a silly question but I am having trouble finding out what the correct color of the bulb is for the 1970 Mach 1 sport lamps, amber or clear. Thanks

[J_Speegle]

Looked through the examples in the 70 Unrestored Picture section of the site and only one showed the bulbs clearly



And a couple more from cars' I've not posted pictures of yet






Haven't looked but are they not listed in the owners manual? Would check if I had a copy here

[1970 Snake]

Thanks again Jeff, I was pretty sure they where the amber color but saw some examples with clear so I thought I would ask before buying and installing.

[67gtasanjose]

Thanks again Jeff, I was pretty sure they where the amber color but saw some examples with clear so I thought I would ask before buying and installing.

I thought you may have been asking (at first) whether or not the amber bulb was painted amber or the commonly-found amber glass. Older amber-colored bulbs were painted (dipped) while today's replacements are all amber-colored glass.

Personally-speaking, if I had a 70 Mustang with Sports Lamps, I would want the CORRECT type of Amber bulb yet so far, this has not been spelled out in this thread.

[tobkob]

I'm not sure for the 70's but 69's had painted bulbs. Here is a thread from a couple of years ago if you find they are painted bulbs.

http://www.concoursmustang.com/forum/index.php?topic=15216.0

TOB

[1970 Snake]

I asked the bulb color question and now realize I didn't need to, but appreciate all the feed back. I remembered that sometime many years ago 18 or so, I purchased a LH side NOS complete Mach 1 sport lamp. I hadn't see or touch it unit today and after pulling the chrome bezel off I see that the original painted amber bulb is still in it. I have not tried to remove the lens as it is literally stuck to the pretty much hard original gasket and I don't want to damage anything and it will go back on the shelf for maybe another number of years ;-)