Pre A split window brake light

[Frank Soikowski]

I would like to have a survey of pre A split window owners.
Four questions:
What year is your car?
What is the number on the brake light lens on your car?
what is the number on the tail light of your car
Do you believe these are original?

[Frank Soikowski]

1950/51
Hella K1431 Brake, plastic
Hella K2670 Tail, glass
unknown

[Alfred Higdon]

Hallo Frank,
March 3rd(?) 1951
Hella K1431
unknown




Sorry for the bad Pic's...hope this helps.
Best Regards,
Al

[Jim Liberty]

Hi guys. I wired the tail lights to the center brake light on my '52. I drive my cars and wanted as much rear protection as possible. The glass on the center light is so dark, it is hard to see during the day, even with a 12v conversion.

........................Jim.

[Joe Ruiz]

I would like to have a survey of pre A split window owners.
Four questions:
What year is your car?
What is the number on the brake light lens on your car?
what is the number on the tail light of your car
Do you believe these are original?

My Split Window cars are: #5369/1950, #5580/1950, #10105/1951, #10188/1951, #10572/1951, #10613/1951.
Below are photos of the brake lite and running lite.

[Tom Niedernhofer]

This is going to mess things up. Reutter Cabriolet #5134. Heavy, cast Hella unit unlike the rest we typically see on early Pre-A cars. I'll take a photo and weigh it on our piston scale it you all would like. Brake light lens is dark red...pretty typical. Unit is off of the car and I cannot tell if it's original...sorry. Guessing this unit is twice as heavy as the stamped steel unit.

This car has been inside since 1973, and it has not been on the road since '68.

(Hallo to Al Higdon!)

[Paul Rui]

Hi Tom,

Next time you´re over here in Europe...Bad Camberg might be a good place to start, take look at one of the black funeral trailers made by Westfalia. I´ll bet you find something that looks pretty much like the one you have on your car. Occasionally I see these things at German swapmeets.
Yours just might be a modified version as I seem to remember that the Westfalia ones are missing the brake light.
Maybe our mutual friend in Belgium has one of those trailers in his collection.

See you soon,
Paul