5k sedan/Avant light bar swaps

[frank j. bauer]

At 11:17 PM 10/16/01 +0200, Tom Nas wrote:
>I now have the sedan Treser lights and had an old 5k Avant light bar lying 
>around, so I put the two next to each other to see if they would be 
>swappable. The answer is yes, with some mods.
>There's an extra flange on the lower edge of the sedan bar, but it's part 
>of the black plastic backing and would be easy to remove with a sharp saw, 
>with no damage to the light bar. I don't know what this is for, so I'm not 
>sure if Avant lights on a sedan would work. The curvature seems identical, 
>though the horizontal indent dividing lower and upper lights in the sedan 
>bar might look a little strange on Avants.
>
>Does anyone know if 5k taillights fit a 4k? Someone told me the reflector 
>bars are identical between type 44 sedans and type 85s, but I haven't seen 
>this myself.

the t44 avant rear lenses are closest to the t85 rear lenses since neither
have the horizontal indent as the t44 sedans do.
i think the outer lenses are identical and the center bar differs in width
only.

frank