Dude, that is totally awesome! I think red dots would look nice, too - subtle but still a change. Apparently I have a thing for dots.
The only red, blue, or green dots I remember weren't really dots at all. Those stainless headlight , tail lite visors, and some of the side vent deflectors had a colored gl*** marble fixed in the center.
No, not simple. You didn't explain -----------or how long they've been used on kangaroos to find them in the dark. This is about history.
I was 14 in '56. I was chopping my '36 Three Window, and Karen Duxbury made me a pair of fuzzy dice to hang in it. Top was chopped 5-1/4" in front, 6" in back (after the Newby errors in cutting with hack saw!) The dice hanging high in the windshield aced any chance of seeing out, so I hung 'em above my bed. All my older hot rod buds wanted to know how I got Karen Duxbury's dice. She was a prize! (truth were known, all I got were the dice...LOL)
Until this thread I had NO idea that fuzzy dice were given by girls to boys. That makes them seem much more cool.
I think that "only one tail light" may have been a carry over from the days of the horse and buggy. Various states had differing laws so eventually the Federal Government stepped in.
19Fordy, that's correct. I believe that after 1940, laws were changed to require 2 tail lights on cars. Ford would only install one, if the car was a "Standard", and two, on the "De Luxe". I've only seen a single tail light on restorations, in a museum. 4TTRUK
They were very popular around here in the early fifties. I put them on my first car in 1954, a 1947 Plymouth along with a split exhaust manifold with dual Smittys
They are legal now in Fl. as of 4 years ago, in the mid 80s had 4 of them on my Mini truck, State trooper did not Like them went out of his way to pull me over while I was pumping Gas at 4:00am truck was facing forward so he could not see them ,he must have seen them before and could not pull me over then so it was a easy ticket to give, so he made a U turn and waited next door as I pulled out of the gas station
I had em on a 36 Plymouth 20 years ago. My neighbor decided he liked them and put them in his 63 Chevy Impala. Local Sheriffs Dept. pulled him over the first time out. He asked how I got by with them and he couldn't. He was given the answer that I had an old car and he didn't. Go figure!!!
Pat I ran blue dots in Illinois in the 60's and 70's with no trouble. Haven't tried them here in Floriduuu. I had dial-up when this thread started. I'm catching up again.
I like blue dots. I will have to dig for a photo of them lit up. They are crazy looking. With the Lee Tailamps they have a L.E.D glow to them.
Dang this thread got dug after a 7 year nap. Then at least I read through it and read what I posted back then. One thing I forgot then was that my buddy carried an extra pair of nice Model A tail light lenses in his car and the screwdriver to change them when he ran those damned blue dots. Back then I normally followed him to rod trots in my 48 and hated those ******** things at night. I knew where he was in the line if a car or two got between us though. He never said what happened but one he had the just red lenses on and that was the way it stayed until he sold it. In other news, along with blue dots of two styles Taillight king has red dots and yellow dots. All of theirs take a 5/16 hole. With that I'd think that the red dots came available for the guys who wanted to run the lenses they had drilled for the blue dots so they could swap over to a red or yellow dot. As others said, in this area you don't see many of them anymore but the cars on them usually have the whole regalia going on at shows. The "My car won't get enough attention if I don't add some props thing.
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