Front lighting on 94-96 Caprices and Impalas

After seeing Woody's post on the clear lens lamp assemblies I hit ebay to take look at them as my headlights in the RMW are marginal at best.

All the clear lens ones I could find were listed for Caprice and Impala only and it seems to be related to cornering lamps, which I have, and side marker lamps and reflectors.

Some of the ebay ones don't have side marker lamps, just a reflector, and some have a kind of ugly round reflector but seem to show a socket for a marker lamp right above it, but no amber lens on it.  

I read somewhere that the Caprice and Impala don't have the cornering lamps but use that lamp for corner turn signal lamps.  Is that how they work?  If so, do they then use both lamps as parking and turn signal?

To me it appears that if I used the one they show that has the socket for side marker lamp with an amber bulb and the Caprice corner turn signal lamp for the cornering light, it should work like the RMW does now.

I never had a chance to look closely at a Caprice so no idea exactly how they are set up.

Anyone able to fill in gaps of whether those lamps might work with Roadmaster.

Yes, they will work with a Roadmaster wagon.

The lights I bought have the hole in them for the cornering light. they look exactly like the factory lights inside and my side turn signal light (24 bulb) is in the hole made for it. I don't have cornering lights so that hole is empty and left the sticker that covers it on there when I installed them.

Thanks Woody, those are one of the kinds I am looking at. The other has some small LEDs that act a running lights, it appears and also light the different location reflector and they have no separate side marker. The side marker appears to be wired into the turn and parking circuits on my RMW as it is on all the time the parking lights are on, but flashes alternately with the front mounted turn signal. I am worried if I hook the small leds to the parking lights it will mess up the flashing as that has been mentioned in a couple of reviews of that style.

I would probably save myself a lot trouble just be getting ones like you have. The reflector doesn't look as odd to me when it is on the car as it does on the lamp only pics.

When I bought these, 2018 I think, there was also a version with a small LED strip inside. They were a one piece design that just didn't look right to me and the little strip seemed out of place.

94Woody wrote:

When I bought these, 2018 I think, there was also a version with a small LED strip inside. They were a one piece design that just didn't look right to me and the little strip seemed out of place.

That is the other one that is still available, but because that strip is also the side marker, it appears, it would have be paralleled with turn signals and parking lights and that is where people have had trouble. They say the turn signal indicators in the dash light up all the time.

I'm working on a headlight modification that may be of interest to the group. It should be a far superior assembly than anything currently out there. I will post again as I get the set-up more photogenic!

Dunc