My first set of LEDs was in my '62 and that was 3 years or so ago. They're pretty poor, actually. I wasn't impressed.
The next set was in my turquoise '79. That was a year ago. I ended up buying Hella lamp housings and installing LED bulbs.The LED bulbs did not fit into the Hella housings well at all, and were insanely bright. So much so that I removed the low beams and replaced them with halogen bulbs. Which meant I had to install headlight relays. It was a huge improvement over stock, but a lot of work.
For my '79 Bill Blass car, I ordered a set of LED head lamps from Octane Lighting. They advertised that they are plug-n-play, with no splicing or modifications to the headlight buckets. I installed them today, and they were right. I first aligned the head lamps with my vintage Hoppy alignment kit. Then I popped out the stock sealed beams and popped in the LEDs. It was that simple. No splicing, no relays, no head lamp bucket modifications.
I took the car out tonight, and wow, they are really bright and very white. I was apprehensive that they would be offensive, but with half an hour of driving around town and on the outskirts of town, no one flashed their lights at me. I'm very impressed.
Low beam:
High beam:
There doesn't seem to be much difference in low and high beam, but there is some. The low beams stay on with the high beams, and that may be why there doesn't seem to be much difference. If you drive your car at night, especially out of town, these are a huge improvement. And since they pop in and out so easily, you can put the old, yellow sealed beams in for judging if you're worried about losing points.
Here's the link: https://www.octanelighting.com/product/ ... -gen-led-2
