Guest mrome Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Hi,I was given a set of trippe lights still new in the box from my fathers garage.I know very little about them but they have never been installed the paper in the box has a bracket chart for cars from 1941 -1947. there is a small envelope with a tool in it and a small box with a new switch also .Insted of rewiring them and putting them on a motorcycle .I thought they might be more usefull for someone with a antique car looking for them . Any information about them or offers for them would be great . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_Mack_CT Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 If you have a NOS (New Old Stock) set of Trippe Jrs. with the mounting tool, switch and associated literature, I think you will find they are worth a heck of a lot more to a restorer than they will be putting on a bike, mrome! Just sold a car they would fit, but suggest searching the buy sell section of this forum for Trippe Jr. prices as we have seen a couple of used sets come through here in the last couple years. Being new in the box will add some value there. Also the right place to put a post if you are looking for offers, good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
West Peterson Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 The Trippe Juniors actually are nicer looking than the Trippe Seniors because they aren't so huge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve_Mack_CT Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 Agree, Seniors only work well on the very biggest of cars, and even then the Jr. lights look better, seniors, IMO look silly on anything much past '32 or maybe in Packard's case '34.I think our new friend will be happy to find the value of these... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RU22 Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 I have a pair of Tripp Marine spot lights the piviot.NOS I'll use them on my 1936 Diamond T 80 deluxe panel deliveryGo them from a Trippe dealer that thought they were worthless since they didn't fit a car. I will like them together with the steeringLove Trippe lights Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Water Jacket Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 (edited) Trippe lights, junior and senior, driving lights, foglights, were rarely seen on even the most expensive cars in the day. Bob Mehl, longtime CCCAer, Packardite, recalled in a Packard Club quarterly how he never saw such things on even the heavyweight luxury cars in his early 1940s Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania boyhood. If only more fine car owners/restorers today would get it through their heads that less is more, that innately elegant designs don't need such, nor gargoyles on the hood, or whitewalls. We've more than once seen photos of late '30s Packard Twelves and Super Eights, including open models, in big city showrooms, parked on Oriental carpets, surrounded by potted palms, with only the standard Packard baled feather hood ornament, blackwalls, and no auxiliary lights. You really see the cars. Edited April 14, 2012 by Water Jacket (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Old48Truck Posted April 14, 2012 Share Posted April 14, 2012 Are Trippe Light wrenches worth much? My dad has some. When we were cleaning out a woman's place 40 years ago, we came across a box with probably a hundred of them in it. Not knowing what they were, we set a handful aside and *gasp* junked the rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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