Finally figured out my tail lights on my 51 chevy!

Alright , i know it's not the most original idea but im really stoked on how it came out. I got some 4"- 16g tubing and a couple 1/8 backing plates and just went for it. Got tired of people asking what i was gonna do for tail lights, here it is!!















Now comes the tricky part..... I gotta do the other side!!

Ian

 

...very nice!

 

nice work, nice thinkin!

 

I like it......

 

Wow! That'll shut 'em up!

 

i like that a lot.

 

that looks GREAT!
the placement is spot on.

 

I was scared when I saw your first picture. I thought not another frenched set of caddy lights but when I scrolled down I was very pleasantly surprised. That is a very cool and innovative approach to caddy lights, probably the best one I have ever seen. Well done!

 

Cool look...now all you need are some of these custom made lenses...



and they can match them to whatever color you're going to paint your Chevy...check out www.dichrome.com

R-

 

What he said.^ very nice. I love caddy lights but am sick of seeing them, yours are an exception.

 

Thank you so much for the nice words. Im super stoked now, i wasn't sure if i ****ed up! Those custom lenses are sick IMO. It made sense to me to run some kind of pointy tail light setup since my floating bar i put together from an over rider bar and some old dummy lights as pointy turn signals at the ends, i think it'll look nice.





Ian

 

Where do you get 4" tubing?
Is it exhaust tubing?
I need some 5 1/4" OD, (5" would do).

 

beautiful work... great idea about the bumper lights

 

Hell yea! I'm liking the tails and the grill bar!

 

" IMS INDUSTRIAL METAL SUPPLY " 5 fwy at sunland. they are great. Im not sure if they have 5" in the 16g but i know for sure they have 5". check em' out!

 

thanx man! i need to clarify that the floating bar is for the front, although it could be cool for the back too, maybe a little wide (30").

Ian

 

VERY nice... Great placement and looks natural and custom at the same time.

Quick question: the rear of the car looks to be sitting flat down on the floor, what the heck did you do, and what size rear tire are you running to get that low?

 

thanx man!! here's the thread! im running 205/75 15 but planning on running smaller ones soon...they are too close to the top of the wheel wells when the car is dropped.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=305649

 

Those lights look great i cant believe how nice it flows.

 

looks amazing man. GREAT CHOICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i couldnt have imagined it any better.. WOW

This has made my day, I have waiting for some progress and !!! you nailed it.

 

I like what you are doing with your Chevy. Two thumbs up !!
Jack

 

Great job on the most over used taillight in existance. I now have renewed interest.

 

I'm not usually a fan of Caddy tails (59's or the modern ones haha) but those look good where they're at..Very nice decision

 

I like the looks of that. It reminds me of the tail lights on a 62 Mercury Monterey.

 

WOW! what an amazing positive response. thank you very much everybody.
It means a lot to me. I , myself, am sick of seeing caddy tail lights being used in bad taste and i was really crossing my fingers that what i was doing wasn't gonna be that. Thanx again guys!!

MERRY XMAS!!!!

Ian

 

This is a 51 that has been here in town for 30 years its a clone of the guys high school car except for the tail lights he original 56 or 58 Vette lights when he was in high school

 

Looking good man!

 

Very NICE lookin' Taillights Man,Nice work too!

 

suicidedoors.com has 5" DOM 1/8" wall if you can't find it anywhere else....

 

******KNUCKLES and myself have had a conversation several times about 56 packard taillights and I feel that if they are done right they are beautiful and he says they are done too much.

now while the latter may be true to some degree, there are two things to say here.
1: they are used for a reason.
2: name one person you know that has them on a car that lives with in reasonable driving distance of you.

if it looks good it looks good.

and they look good.

doittoit.