I have a lovely pair of the same Bosch lights that I was going to fit to my Feb55 as I have always liked the Bosch glass, and have never been certain about which lights were correct during oval period, I know as many ovals wearing Bosch as Hella's. But my car's og ones were definitely Hella as they are dated correct, so I have to stick with them. Even though I dont think they look as nice.
Bosch does seem to be more common during later 50's though, certainly pretty much all og 58+ beetles we get have Bosch fitted, and all 40's beetles and splits seem to wear Hella's.
(Also all our Barndoor og lights are only Hella's with logo'd chromes)
BUT, I am certain pre55 Porsche wear Bosch(maybe Hella also but I really dont know enough yet) as we have some Bosch logo'd, (both large and small (as above) Bosch logo's) And Dr Johnson told me that our large logo lights are 50 & 51 Porsche! :d
So I am still confused myself for definite about the
logo'd chrome's? Pre55 Hella chrome was logo'd, so you would think Bosch would follow?
I can never remember how to date the Bosch ( But Etzhold does! :d ) as they are harder than Hella, which are easy to date.
Regardless, they are nice lights you have, the Bosch glass with the rope design is SO nice, I would use them anyway if you have them :d
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