Looking for some rectangular tail lights for my C cab project. Would like them to be around 15" long and they need to be flexible as the back of the C is slightly curved. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it. I found plenty of rigid ones but they won't bolt to the curve of the cab. Thanks.
One way is to find some lenses or lights, by looking at pictures of cars or by finding some in a junkyard etc. Then modify the body where they fit on. The usual way to do this was to bend a steel rod to fit around the lense, weld it to the body, and fill the gaps with pieces of sheet metal. Another way would be to make your own lenses of plexiglas. You can do this by heating the plexi in your oven to soften it, and molding it over a wooden mold you carved. Or clamping it between 2 pieces of plywood with a hole of the right shape and blowing a bubble with compressed air or with a vacuum.
If your just looking for a lens, make a mold and pour your own.. if your looking to modify something...here are a couple 1952 Packard, 1953 pontiac wagon
If you can find a lens with a deep bezel you can slowly file/ grind to fit the contour of the body. If not, frenching the bezels you like into the body would a good solution
Not looking for just a lens. Trying to find a 12 - 18 " long by 1 -2" wide light bar that is slightly flexible. No luck tho, guess I'm going to have to french one into the body, not sure how that will look tho.
Find some big lenses like out of some of the 80/90 something T birds and carefully cut the lens down to the shape you need and make your own box for the bulbs behind it. I picked up one of those lenses off the road one day when the heat melted the glue that held it in and it fell off the car. There were a number of cars in that era with huge tail lights that you could most likely cut down to work.
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