Blue dots

So, I bought these.

http://www.prestostore.com/cgi-bin/pro25.pl?ref=partsnstuff&ct=56766&pd=243036&recview=21

Then I installed them and posted this thread.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=449331&highlight=tool

Through the infinite wisdom of some of the members of this board I was gently educated that plastic blue dots are cheesy and glass ones are the only way to fly.

So, I found these.

http://www.classicchevy.com/product.asp?pf_id=04-27&dept_id=1146

Has anyone swapped the plastic ones for glass ones without buying a complete set of brake light lenses with glass blue dots already in them?

 

i dont know how your plastic ones are installed if they are molded into the lense or not but i have very carefully drilled the plastic lense out and installed the glass blue dots. its is best to start with a small bit and very carefully work your way up. the dots have installation tabs on them but i glued them also to seal them up

 

Arent they illegal some places ?

 

This is what Illinois says.
(a‑1) An antique vehicle, including an antique motorcycle, may display a blue light or lights of up to one inch in diameter as part of the vehicle's rear stop lamp or lamps.

 

I can't say that I ever really understood the appeal of the blue dot taillight lens modification. I mean, yeah, now they are considered a part of the traditional "look" for certain types of cars (which is justification enough for using them in some builds), but what was the original point of using them (if there was one) and how did they become popular enough that we're still using them today?

 

The original point was that they looked cool, were cheap, just about any high school boy could afford to order them from Warshawsky, they came in the mail in a plain brown envelope and dad wouldn't notice you put them in his tail lights and put his foot in your ass for at least two weeks.

 

i like them , but the cops around here dont , ive gotten a few fix-it tickets for having them

 

Blue dots? ... Nah ... I am more of a fuzzy dice and dingle balls kinda guy ... At least for pavement ...

 

I see the HAMB police dont like blue dots either, bad luck I love them..

 

I never really understood the point of them, i just know its been done for a long time and there cool cuz they did in back in the day.

 

I've had a set of glass blue dots in glass tailights on my Oz 40 Dodge Sedan since about 1974........they look nice and are neat at night..........HAMB and any other police can go plat their crap for all I care.........lol.......andyd.

 

The point is so your taillights glow in a cool color too.

Plastic, glass, if the color is the same what difference does it make?

 

Tell those clowns to kiss your ass. The glass ones were originally made to go into glass lenses. When they bend over to check them real close kick them in the ass. These are the original glass lens and blue dots. I could be wrong but I don't think you could buy the blue dots separately when they first became popular in the early 50s. You bought the whole lens with the blue dot installed. I remember in the 70s when the blue dots became available again. Every other vendor had them on their table.

And yes my graduation tassel faded from dark blue to almost white from the sun through the windshield. It may sound dorky now but in 1962 it was a badge of honor proudly displayed from the rear view mirror. Dice were dorky. I'd never use dice but if I ever find a cheap dark blue tassel I might just replace it.

 

Guy's were putting blue dots in back in the fifty's. Its one of the things dun like spot lights, nosing and decking,shaving the door handles, dechroming and twin pipes

 

I'm probably not an upstanding member of the traditional cops although I think if one is part of this board they should at the very leat lean towards traditional.

Anyway I'm off on a tangent here. I don't have a problem with blue dots. I remember them back about as far as I remember anything. They are as much a part of rodding at least from the '50s on (that's as far back as I remember) as chrome wheels and goofy body mods on customs.

I have run them at one time or another but I have not run them in quite awhile. They make your tailight appear to be dommer. its the efect of the blue light mixing with the other I think. Anyway I like folks to be able to see my tail lights. If I don't want anyone to see them I shut them off.

Back to the original question they can be drilled out and the glass ones installed in their place.

 

I'd rather rock a set of blue dots than what is available nowadays. Blue leds,spinner hub caps and those damn stick on fender accents.

 

DOTS! Did someone say dots? I frikkin love dots! To keep things legal over here, I have red dots for tails, amber dots for turns and green dots for reverse (you don't actually have to have reverse lights to be legal)cos they're different.As for the point of them,does there have to be one?I also run dummy lakes!
Why? cos I can.
Am I a tool? Most definitely.
And as for the HAMB police, you'll never take me alive copper.

 

I'm gonna put some on my Shoebox.

 

If you don't like blue there are several other colors in glass out there. I have red dots for my glass lens, because blues are not legal in NY. I have changed them out several times might go with the amber next.

 

they're only illegal around here when the cops are bored....

 

I've run blue-dots in all three of my hotrods, never been hassled about them in 20+ years.

 

i run them, and i dont care if you dont like.

 

amen!

 

Most of the younger cops dont even know what they are. They actually think old cars came with them from the factory. I have a set of red lenses under my seat just in case.

 

Blue dots or not...plastic or glass? Who gives a crap?

 

The plastic ones may melt.

 

I've told a cop that the Acadian tail lights came that way
As mine was the first Acadian he ever saw he believed me

 

Too much!
Thank you for this outlook on a fun aspect of one's own choosing.

 

I've run blue dots on my shoebox since 1955 and never been stopped or hassled for it.