Cibie Oscar Driving Lights (1 Viewer)

[Fast Eddy]

Cibie is pronounced like the letters, C-B-A. It's French. I've had the headlights for awhile, e-code 7" for LHD. You can get them with city lights in them, but these don't have them.

The driving lights I got used from Cruiser Corps a while back. They were very popular on rally cars in the 80s, but you don't see them much anymore.

 

[Fast Eddy]

I've been trying to figure out an elegant way to mount them where I wanted them. These are 1 bolt brackets. The inboard end is jammed into the crack between the outboard bumper brackets and the top triangle braces. It's very solid in there. The brackets are angle iron. I made the first one out of flat stock and it was not solid enough to make my OCD happy. I used a couple big nuts to space them up 1/2" at the last minute.

 

[cruiserpilot]

I saw a report comparision sometime ago from Australia. These were very highly rated lights. I asked around and was told they were obsolete, not made any more. Can they still be bought?

 

[mikey b]

Look here www.danielsternlighting.com/
Mike

 

[hindsight]

Cibie lights were always the coolest....I still have a set that was mounted on my original FJ40. As I recall the energy draw was quite high and it did not take much to blow fuses.

I would imagine that a set of new LED about 1/3 the size could best the dated Cibies...but nothing could match the cool factor

Doc

 

[Fast Eddy]

I would imagine that a set of new LED about 1/3 the size could best the dated Cibies...but nothing could match the cool factor

With a 75w HID conversion there is no way any current LEDs could reach out as far, not that that matters when you're driving a 40.

I'm going to run them with stock bulbs, for the cool retro factor.

 

[Landpimp]

Think I have 6 pairs of Cibie's now, Oscar+ fogs(amber and clear) drivers, 175 amber fogs and drivers(way rare) 275's amber fogs. The widest beam pattern I have ever seen is the 175 fogs

got my 1at pair in 1982

I think Stern is about done, some of his stuff has been popping up on Ebay, and a Rover place has the H4 7"s and others in stock, same-ish price and the pics are right from Sterns web site
http://store.coventrywest.com/cgi/coventry.pl?CTGY=LIT975L

her is a link to an 1985 catalog
http://winktimber.com/vintagerally/gear/lights/cibie_catalog_1985.pdf

 

[Fast Eddy]

Around then, 1982, I had the large rectangular H4 headlights in my Dodge/Mitsubishi D50 with a pair of similarly-sized Cibie rectangular spot beams cut into the grille that came on with the high beams. It looked like I had the small quad headlights from a distance, but they were all the large ones. With 4x100w bulbs they put out a lot of light. I've got a picture somewhere with four white Cibie light covers on them. It was pretty badass looking.

$75 is a pretty great deal on those 7" round headlights.