[DeTomaso] Tail Light Modification

[Art Stephens]

Hello Michael,
I came across you pictures recently while I was looking for cars with big round tail lights, I liked the look of your version. I think I agree with you about the recess, but it looked to me like it was going to be way more work than I wanted to do. This was a very simple modification for me. I just cut out a piece of 18 gauge sheet metal and used a 4.5 inch hole saw to make the piece that I tacked in. I didn't get carried away welding it in case I decided against the mod. I also got to thinking that this may eliminate the cracking around the tail lights, or I may just have big cracks across the back of my car. :-]]]  The grommet is part of what makes this mod so easy. I like the way it seems to make the tail lights look bigger, kind of an "in your face" thing. I was afraid the grommet was going to give this a truck like appearance, but I really like it. A potential down side to the grommet is that it casts a shadow at times, but I am probably getting too fine about that. By the way guys, the bulbs and grommets are for 18 wheelers! So there are only about a million of them around which also makes them very inexpensive. The entire incandescent assemblies are less than ten dollars apiece including the grommets, the LEDs are more. 

Art



From: michael at michaelshortt.com 
  To: Art Stephens 
  Cc: detomaso at realbig.com 
  Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 10:35 AM
  Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Tail Light Modification


  I photoshopped this about five years ago and shared it with theforum  ( along with cougar, shelby and ferrari taillights ) to see what it would look like.

  My only suggestioon would be to recess them more and lose the black grommet.
  I think if there was a recess, it would work much better in the daylight hours.


  Michael  Shortt


  On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Art Stephens <artstephens at verizon.net> wrote:

    Album NameI know this is going to bring out the boo birds, (Mike), :-]], but here is my latest modification.


    Art
    Art's wheel re-invention institute.





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