1952-59 Ford tailights

Want to change the taillight lenses in my 52 What taillights did you use in place of stock lenses I know alot of guys use 56 olds taillights want to do something different lets see what you got
thanks guys

 

See my album for pictures of the tail lights I have on my '53. The back portion of the lens is a modified stock '53 Ford lens with a portion of the center cone removed. I then used a '60 Chevrolet Impala tail light lens to cover the removed center cone area.

 

I used 53 hudson jet tail lights.

 

I used '55 Olds 88 tail lights, buckets and all, frenched into the fenders. The details are in my build thread.

I've only seen Hudson Jet lenses used one time, but they look great! I tried to find some for my Victoria, but came up dry and so settled for the '55 Olds lights.

How 'bout some pix, vein?

 

You could always use '56 chevy tailights?
I'm running cadillacs, and I'm a big fan of how they look. Though its probably just because my dad ran a similar set up on one of his cars.

 

I like the tailights baker was thinking of same thing with 59 caddy tailight but it might be to long and look weird your is very cool would love to see the hudson tailights thanks guys great ideas

 

I used 54 Olds mounted in the 53 lense for many years. have now installed flat lense held in with small chrome bullets.I'm not to happy with them, but they're okay till I find something better. Would go back to the Olds if I could find some new ones.

 

you can use the 52-54 ford taillight frenching kit. comes with a lense., pretty neat lookin.

 

I have 54 Olds in mine. You have to weld some tabs on the housing to make them work but they look great in my opinion. Carnut...you can get brand new Olds tail lights from fusick.com. They shipped quick and look great. They are brand new so they're going to run you about $80 but well worth it. I heard 60 buick tail lights work as well. Never tried it though.

Here's a pic of my car:

 

Mine are frenched so if you weren't going to french the lights they would stick out a little farther and you would need to make the housing a little cleaner and paint it flat black or body color or something.

 

I just found a company that actually has repops for the '53 Hudson jet tail lights- $65 a piece.

http://store01.prostores.com/servlet/kgapstore/Detail?no=104

 

excuse the size! I'm too lazy to crop it, but it gives you an idea of what I did.

 

I have no idea what these are. guy I got the car from said they were canadian Mercury

 

great pics and ideas guys thanks alot now I need to get to work on it

 

Yeah I would post some pics but unfortunately our home was burglarized a couple weeks back. I do have one picture in my pictures.

 

Lots of cool pics of the tail lights!

 

Lanny Haas..........they are Meteor lens, 53 I think.

 

I used to have the stock 52 ford lense with a 59 caddie lense through it but, i allways knocked it, so just have stock 59 caddie lense by it self now,or stock 52 with bluedots...

 

like the blue dots the caddys youcan get with blue dots too may make them a little shorter might look good ... now i cant decide to many ideas good job guys thanks

 

I cut my stock 52 lenses in half and mounted 56 chevy lenses.