Calling all amateur sleuths: ID car by headlight fragment| Off-Topic Discussion forum |

Scott Lear Production Editor
4/27/10 10:21 a.m.

The more eyes see this, the better a chance they have:

http://www.autoblog.com/2010/04/27/help-id-a-hit-and-run-what-car-does-this-headlight-belong-to/

Woody GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
4/27/10 10:43 a.m.

First, since this happened in Yipsilanti, it's unlikely that it's from an import.

My guess is that it's not even a headlight, but rather the light that's closer to the grill on a 91-95 Ford Taurus.

Like this one:

16vCorey SuperDork
4/27/10 10:49 a.m.

It would really help if they said whether the pieces were glass or plastic in the article.

16vCorey SuperDork
4/27/10 10:50 a.m.

It kinda looks like glass in the pics, so that would cancel out the Taurus. It looks thicker than a plastic lens, and it's not yellowed at all like a lot of plastic lenses.

Powar Dork
4/27/10 10:56 a.m.

I'll agree with the commenters on that site in saying that the 95-99 Lumina/Monte Carlo assembly looks very, very similar.

16vCorey SuperDork
4/27/10 11:00 a.m.

It's GM. The little clip that holds the lens to the body is the give away. Probably '90s or early '00s.

16vCorey SuperDork
4/27/10 11:00 a.m.

Powar wrote: I'll agree with the commenters on that site in saying that the 95-99 Lumina/Monte Carlo assembly looks very, very similar.

That was my first thought as well.

nocones GRM+ Memberand Reader
4/27/10 11:47 a.m.

What about early Olds Aurora? Can't find a clear pictue but seems to have a more consistent pattern than the lumina, but a similar overall shape.

Grtechguy SuperDork
4/27/10 11:50 a.m.

Not an Aurora, I have one

TJ Dork
4/27/10 12:23 p.m.

Grtechguy wrote: Not an Aurora, I have one

Is yours maroon?

16vCorey SuperDork
4/27/10 1:10 p.m.

I don't think it's a Lumina/Monte Carlo. Just went and looked at one up close, and the horizontal lines are much closer together than the fragment pics, unless the fragments are just REALLY small and really close up. If they're serious about finding this car, they need to tell us whether the lens is glass or plastic and show a ruler in the pic or something to tell the scale.

akamcfly Reader
4/27/10 6:06 p.m.

TJ wrote:
Grtechguy wrote: Not an Aurora, I have one
Is yours maroon?

Ours was

integraguy HalfDork
4/27/10 7:22 p.m.

I didn't read all 214 comments, but another possiblity is the 98-99 Malibu.

BTW, it's hard to tell, as others have noted, whether this is a glass or plastic fragment, but I'm betting glass as it doesn't have any "tears" to it, but instead has sheared off pieces. I don't know my cars well enough to guess what car would still have a narrowish glass headlight.

Grtechguy SuperDork
4/27/10 8:58 p.m.