Sigh, I wished; that would have been the SMART move. The person painted the headlights. To do a proper smoke job, it's a light coating on the inside of the lens. Fortunately (unfortunately) the outside was painted.

I took the bumper off to get better access to the headlights. This car was in a front end collision and was rebuilt.

The front with much work.

Closeup of the driver side headlight after much sanding at 400 grit

sand sand sand away

Whoever did something to the positive feed to the starter, ran the stupid cable through the electrical box. GAH!

shade tree tech work, this is not how we do things

I moved some slack around and got the cable back behind the electrical box so I can actually close it.