Vader light and?... (1 Viewer)

[mchlhmltn]

Two questions:
1. Is the bottom port for the vader light?
2. What are the top pieces for? Looks like something would attach from the outside of each of those.

 

[Living in the Past]

None of it is OEM. Bottom looks a plug. Any wires run to it. Top two look like a hand may have been attached at some point. I never seen one like it before.

 

[FJ40Savvy]

These are not Vader light related. Looks like mounting brackets for something and maybe a mic jack or speaker jack. Your dash doesn't have the proper holes for a Vader light. Maybe an OEM Hardtop FJ40 or a dash transplant?

Here is a picture of a Vader light I just installed in my truck along with the OEM switch.

 

[EWheeler]

Two questions:
1. Is the bottom port for the vader light?
2. What are the top pieces for? Looks like something would attach from the outside of each of those.
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Top pieces maybe a cup holder attachment? Seems like a good place to store a road soda as a passenger.

 

[thatcabledude]

Looks like it could have been a plug for headset for coms. There isn’t one on the driver side ?

 

[mchlhmltn]

Top pieces maybe a cup holder attachment? Seems like a good place to store a road soda as a passenger.

That would make perfect sense. I will google image search that.

 

[mchlhmltn]

None of it is OEM. Bottom looks a plug. Any wires run to it. Top two look like a hand may have been attached at some point. I never seen one like it before.

No wires, but I also tore out a ton of non functional wiring when I first got it.

 

[charliemeyer007]

See where the wires go from the back side of the plug - I vote Gerry rigged trouble light or and actual headphone jack.

 

[Living in the Past]

No wires, but I also tore out a ton of non functional wiring when I first got it.

My 73 has tons of non OEM wiring. A PO used a trailer light plug to connect the home made winch controller. That is a Vader light and switch which are original to the cruiser since it's a FST.

Registration expired in 1988. Cruiser hasn't been used since then. Cruiser was offered to me at a price I couldn't refuse in 1994.

 

[rainingagain]

Looks like it could have been a plug for headset for coms. There isn’t one on the driver side ?

Agreed. My money is on an old headphone jack for the port and the upper two, there was likely a some sort of holder / cross bar for said headphones.

 

[45Dougal]

The top parts look like a toilet roll holder bracket we had in the 80s. Handy in the passenger seat?

 

[Paul_A]

Why the hell did so many PO's have to make their dashes look like the cock pit of a Boeing 747!

 

[45Dougal]

Why the hell did so many PO's have to make their dashes look like the cock pit of a Boeing 747!

Back when people had nothing, and you could buy nothing; having something was actually cool.
Now people have everything, and you can buy all manner of crap online; nobody wants it.

 

[Michael B]

I think the top brackets are for an old “ Bar Bouy” cup holder.

 

[65swb45]

The top parts look like a toilet roll holder bracket we had in the 80s. Handy in the passenger seat?

…especially next to the Oh Sh*t grab bar!