Technical Custom tail light stands from 34 headlight stands?!?

I was looking around for some cool way to mount 37 ford truck tail lights on my highboy 34 Ford. Looking through my parts I thought that a pair of 34 headlight stands would look cool modified for this purpose. I’ve never seen it done before so I figured what the heck! Let’s try it! It’s easy and doesn’t cost much except some time and two headlight stands.

 

Here’s a stock headlight stand on left. Center has been cut down on a chop saw and ground to better accommodate the bullet shape of the tail light.

 

I found two large flat washers and ground them to fit the opening. Measured and marked them for two mounting screws to bolt the taillights to the stands.tack welded the washer to the inside of stand. I could’ve just welded the tail light bucket directly to the stand but opted to make it bolt on in case I didn’t like the end result.I had to use an Allen screw for easier access to tight area.

 

Added a second hidden tab with stud to secure the stand to my rear body gussets. Tight squeeze but you can still remove screws to disassemble tail light.

 

End results. I hope this illustrates how I made a cool and unique pair of stands .

 

I like!

 

Thanks. Very nice tech article.

 

Nice write up, and looks great.

 

Looks great.

 

Well done. Great tech.

 

Thanks guys! I’m not much on writing long worded posts,I think the pictures show pretty much how to replicate what I’ve done.

 

That’s a kind of recycling I can get behind! Nice!

 

Nice! Thanks for showing us.

 

They look perfect...you have a good eye to see what it could look like

 

Mission accomplished!

 

They look good, and are less prone to breakage than the stock Ford tail light brackets.

 

I love this. Way better than the spindly tubular mounts you usually see. Nice work!!

 

Thanks..Also,in my opinion,I hate those store bought mounts they sell..They look fine for a model a or even a 32 but a 34 has such cool, flowing body lines that those type of mounts look kinda cheesy on it..Plus, I am cheap! ha ha

 

Very nice

 

Great job on the repurposing of the stands. End result looks nice and flows nice with the taillight bucket.