Tail lights..whats your favortie?

these are some of the raddist taillights ive come across.
what are they - ponchos with accessory covers on them?

 

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I had 50 Lincoln Cosmo lights on my Shoebox and always liked the way they looked. Still got a cherry set too waiting for my next custom project...

 

I like 50 pontiac...but they are so common.

 

Here ya go. I fell in love with the Packards a long time ago. Finally scored a pair this past fall. Next comes the installation.

 

Gee, I missed this thread the first time around.

'41 Studebaker is the coolest and most graceful taillight for teardrop cars like '40 Fords. Valley Custom used them on so many cars, they single-handedly made the Stude lights extinct!

'51 Pontiac (with the sharper-edged bezel) is a perfect, pure design. Placed correctly, they look nice on nearly anything.

'54 Merc looked great on the Merc. I've never cared for them on anything else.

and, of course,

'41 Hudson are perfect for '36 Fords!

 

I have six of the 39 Teardrops a cross the back of my 45 GPW set up with a sequencer like the old Cougars and T birds.

Dawg

 

I got these laying around in their boxes

i like them but not shure if i ever gona use them.....
but had to buy them when i did se them

 

I don't know what's so cool about 50 pontiac lights, kind of dull to me. I know they have been used a lot on cars from way back, but you'd think people would want to be different. there's a lot of kick *** lights out there, personaly these are my fovorites. 60 chrysler.

 

No, they're mid-'30s Chrysler. Airflow Imperial, I think.

 

Can't belive that nobody have posted these yet, one of my favorites...

 

These are different!!!

 

Glad you said 58 Chevy Biscayne..........I gots a BAD addiction to them.

Brandy

 

did you get laid on your birthday or what

 

Am I the only one who can not see Jim C or Mutts taillights?????


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I'm a ****er for the Mercury Parklane tail lights. I've been saving these for a few years to find the right thing to put them on. They are over 36" long.

 

i cant see em either, but the thread is really old, so the pics have prolly expired or something.

 

Scob:

The guy who owns Ralph Ferks old Startling Starfire 53 old custom is looking for a set of those, that is what Ralph had on the car but they have long since dissapeared.

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Girls tell me I got a nice ***, are they talking about this?:

 

**** leakage!

 

Packard over Merc

 

hybrid...

 

Bob,
I'd like to see some pictures of that car. Those tail lights are actually monsterously hard to find. It took me about three years. I finally bought a whole car just to take the tail lights and pilfer the MEL.

 

Scoob, use this link. As I remember it he used 2 of those lights on each side to come up with that look. OG001 here on the HAMB used to own that car also.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=35904&highlight=ralph+ferks

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Three that should NOT ever be here or anywhere else, Vega, Pinto or Mustang.

 

Those look like '63 Biscayne/Belair.
The Impala version has another chrome band around the light.
They are repopped but probably the most expensive Chevy tail light repopped.
I've got some but they're pitted and cracked
But I like them almost as much as the Lincoln/Mercury light NorwegianV8 posted.
The Stude lights 50Fraud mentioned are cool, but I wonder if the big shops actually scavanged them off wrecks or just bought them across the counter new. After all, they were still new(er) car parts at the time.
Those Mercury Park Lane lights would be bizzar/cool and the "pod" Imperial tail lights (and headlights) around the end of the 50's thru the early 60's would be good too

Don't forget the unobtanium '58 Edsel stationwagon tail lights!

 

If you haven't already check out Dave Lindsays site, in the reference section theres 17 pages of various tailights...

http://wackydave.fotki.com/cars_-_various_themes/details/tailights/

 

Looks like the 37 ford taillights. That's what I'm putting on my truck. Picked up a set of reproductions at the swap meet last weekend.

 

I wouldn't have thought to use them that way. Looks like he only used part of them.

 

1951-52 buicks