Thread: Are there any cigarette lighters in cars big enough to be considered "cigar lighters"

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Hey guys, you might find this an odd question, but I was thinking the other day that it would be great to have a bigger cigarette lighter, big enough to light a 54 ring gauge cigar. I've searched ebay curious if any makers ever had one that large, can't find anything.

My question is do any of you know of one in a car that was really oversized? barring that, how hard would one be to make?

Thanks guys.

Red

I sure can't think of one, Red. In my meremberment a 48 (about 3/4 inch) would be the biggest, and you'd have to have a real steady hand to do it in one touch and light the whole end. Considering that a cigar/cigarette lighter is less used to day for it's original purpose, and more as an aux-power outlet, standardization has taken over, and none would be larger that another.

Thanks rumbler, I thought about making one but despite looking simple it sounds like from reading how they work there is a degree of precision involved there. I'll just keep a nice lighter in the car and be done with it I guess.

Red

Uh-huh. Personally, I sort'a think there's something a bit retro-classy about an old flip top Zippo, or a nice Ronson pocket lighter; of course, getting lighter fluid and flints might be a challenge these days - I don't know, though, because I stopped smoking about thirty years ago, and I never was a lighter guy anyhow; I carried a tin matchbox filled with "lucifers".

Red it's funny you ask this, because when I was looking for parts for my F1, most of the adds for lighters were titled Cigar, and not cigarette. I think the diameter is going to be pretty standard on anything made today, as mentioned above, because of axiallary plug in stuff, like cell phone chargers, but the cigarette lighter will work for most cigars unless your lighting some really big diameter ones, but you could always rotate the cigar against the burner to get the whole thing lit!