TECH- How To Make Kustom Taillight Bezels

Doowop, it came out looking really clean and simple. you might think about putting something in that flat spot. otherwise very cool.

 

I like them! Great work, thanks for sharing your ideas!

 

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Good tech post. I like the trick of painting the modified part, saves money by not having to rechrome them.

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I agree, I likely would have painted the whole thing but the part he painted makes it look unnoticeable to me and professional

 

Looks pretty good. I'd probably paint the rest when you paint the car. But it ain't mine, is it.

It's great to see a guy your age that's not skeered to take chances on doing stuff like that. Keep us up to date on the project.

 

Cool- I love taillight treatments-

Here's another idea if you want it- You can file out the flat part of that cicle area on the bottom and trim a pointy round "beehive" lens to fit the hole exactly. The sell them at pep boys and autozone in red, amber, and blue. You could also use the tip of a 59 cad lens but why spend 20.00 when you could spen 3- plus the behehives come in blue and the cad's don't. That would make it look a little more "space-age" and 60's and a little less '70s cadilac eldorado.

Anyway- good work.

 

I think the key to kustomizing is to make your car kustom without being blatently obvious in all aspects.

TheDooWopKid13: Unless you had your car parked side-by-side with another completely stock Pontiac of your vintage, most people wouldn't notice the time you spent on your taillights...but to most guys like us, we'd stand back and say, "hey, that's cool, look what THAT guy did to HIS taillights..." If you can grab someone's attention to the point where they know the car, but can't quite figure out what you did that makes them wonder WHY it looks different, that's golden!

A lot of cars rolled out of Detroit with great lines and features, but it takes a talented eye to spot when a kustomizer has somehow figured out a way to re-design a small part that, taken as a whole, improves the look of a car without being gawdy, ridiculous, or obtrusive to the rest of the design.

To the people who don't like what the kid did, everyone is entitled to their opinion.

To the guys on here who can appreciate change for the sake of subtle kustomization, the kid did a nice job. Period.

 

I think it looks pretty COOL...
He just used whathe had, and changed it,,,

PRETTY STRAIGHT FORWARD

Whats cool HOMEBOY is that you have the PASSION at such a YOUNG age to THINK OUTSIDE the BOX,,and CHANGE things...

Good Tech..
I dig It,,,

LATER BRO,
GERM

 

thanks guys for all the compliments. i agree on the flat spot on the lens. if anyone knows where i can get them without if that would be a big help, or i could just add a bullet to it. the paint all the end will be a blue metal flake.

 

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I think the key to kustomizing is to make your car kustom without being blatently obvious in all aspects.

TheDooWopKid13: Unless you had your car parked side-by-side with another completely stock Pontiac of your vintage, most people wouldn't notice the time you spent on your taillights...but to most guys like us, we'd stand back and say, "hey, that's cool, look what THAT guy did to HIS taillights..." If you can grab someone's attention to the point where they know the car, but can't quite figure out what you did that makes them wonder WHY it looks different, that's golden!

A lot of cars rolled out of Detroit with great lines and features, but it takes a talented eye to spot when a kustomizer has somehow figured out a way to re-design a small part that, taken as a whole, improves the look of a car without being gawdy, ridiculous, or obtrusive to the rest of the design.

To the people who don't like what the kid did, everyone is entitled to their opinion.

To the guys on here who can appreciate change for the sake of subtle kustomization, the kid did a nice job. Period.

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I agree. My first thought was that there's going to be a lot of guys pointing out the Lincoln tailights on that Pontiac. Keep 'em wondering 'Kid.

Mutt

 

I couldnt agree more with these last posts. looks real good. I did some subtle taillight treatment to my Galaxie lights and most wouldnt even notice. Its actually similar to what praisethelowered said using a small behive lens, but I couldnt find blue, plus I heard blue is illegal..nice work DWKid...