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I couldn't resist buying these lights from 97Gase when he said he was going to remove them from his truck. I think they are very cool and you just don't see them much on our trucks. I plan on installing them on my 66. What do you guys think of these?

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Had a set on my 66, they look great with the right color combo and mirrors like west coast style. Reminds me of a big rig. you gunna crome or paint em.

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theres a 60-66 truck running around my area with them on and i think they look really good! i bought this one on ebay for a 3rd brake light in my car project! i searched for info on them and only found a little bit. mines a Do-ray no.410 there is other company's that made same style or a little different like cabco. no.410 and yankee 77 model... forgot some of the name's.the o.g. ones were glass lens and came in red or amber.
http://i976.photobucket.com/albums/a...tjennz/053.jpg

the one's you have pictured..is either a CABCO. NO.410 or a DO-RAY NO.410, I believe DO-RAY was the replacement for the cabco. after they went out of business or the other way around.

Taillight king had some for sell at one point.you have to goto the truck and trailer section and then to Amber/Yellow Miscellaneous Odd Shaped part and scroll to the bottom to see the cab over lights:
http://www.taillightking.com/

here's some pics i found:
http://www.taillightking.com/images/...hromeBezel.jpg
http://www.taillightking.com/images/...hromeBezel.jpg

and someone that had some for sale but dosent look like they have any anymore:
http://www.rpmmotorsportsmn.com/serv...AB-ROOF/Detail

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I'm going to paint them (or powder coat). They are shown to be an option for our trucks but I've rarely seen them on the small trucks. I've seen a few on the larger C30 and C50 rigs.

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Losthope...on that one of yours and many I've looked up have the identical lens design but on these, which is hard to see on the pics, there are some almost scalloped looking lines on the metal casing.

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My green truck has them , I have never investigated them... just kind like the look.. I still have a 50 series with a set on it ....

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Losthope, my dad has those on his Crew, they came with the truck and he had them cleaned up and chromed. not very easy to find good ones.

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got a set on my c-30. only came with 3 but some big trucks have 5 in a 1-3-1 grouping. not sure why the difference but i like the 3 setup better.

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If you ordered a truck with over a 8000lb GVW the 3 lights on top of the cab are required by law. They are called clearance lights, when a trailer is more than ?70" wide then they are required also.......Kieth

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Here's a better pic of mine. Some slight surface rust but no pitting. I was planning on painting mine white to match my proposed roof color but after seeing the chrome I'm torn on which way to go. I'm going with minimal chrome. Painted bumpers, aluminum grill, no side or cab trim. What do you guys think?

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Paint them a contrasting color or chrome, IMO. here is my dad's crew....

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I wonder if those would work for rear tail lights on a step side. either on the top or the side of the rear fender.

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They are 1156 bulbs, and not very bright...that was tacky wasnt it?

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i think you should just paint them and if you dont like the outcome you could get them chromed later! the first picture here is a painted bezel
They kinda look like KD517'S metal bezel with Glass LS303 Lens, 8" long x 2 3/4" wide:
http://i976.photobucket.com/albums/a...nnz/KD5171.jpg
http://i976.photobucket.com/albums/a...ennz/KD517.jpg

AND THERES SOME FOR SALE ON EBAY, they are about around the $30 a light range so depending on how much you payed you might have got a good deal i payed about $30 for mine.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from...All-Categories

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Hey bro its reed hows life? I love them lights thay are so cool I think you should just paint them you can chrome them down the road if you want to youre truck is going to turn out killer cant wait to see the outcome need more pic of work you have done take care Brett talk to you soon Reed.

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Hey Reed, I'm happy to see that you finally surfaced. I'll be looking for pics of your truck. I've got pics posted on threads all over around here. I really think I need to start a build thread. I've just been too lazy to put it together.

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Had a set of roof lights on my 63, I loved em. Crazy bright!! Got em from LMC

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I think the five lights look the best ^ like in that pic.

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https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-k.../image0-17.jpg
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-5.../image0-22.jpg

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my other truck has 5 and they say Yankee 77 and the date code is 69...