it looks like i've bought and installed a 12v lighter for my 53 gmc with a 6v system and it works but won't get hot enough to light a cigarette. maybe some electrical engineering such as a resistor in parallel or shortening the filament or whatever you call the part in the lighter that gets hot would work?
thanks for any and all suggestions, short of replacing it with a 6v lighter and throwing this one away :-)

Overland Blue, 1953 GMC 1/2T, 100-22, 228/1bbl, 4sp/4.10 6v, shortbed/fender side/5-window.