custom tail light idea?

[jumbo]

I'm not really digging the caddy lights on my 87 burb. They're too tall for the bodyline, and i really don't like the way they look. I've been racking my brain trying to think of some custom tail light ideas but i'm coming up empty. The only thing i've come up with that's a little different is using stock tail lights or clear (or white) tails and painting over them, or smoking them since they'll be over flat black. Can this be done? Can i paint over clear lenses and have the bulbs show up? I've seen tails in the graphics before, but i've only seen them over red or white, i'm not sure how it will be over flat black.

[BLE 'BURBAN]

Here's my tinted tail light lenses. A bit of black paint mixed into a clear coat and sprayed over new aftermarket stock style lenses with the L.E.D. panels in place of the stock bulbs.

[tvblazer78]

Originally Posted by jumbo

I'm not really digging the caddy lights on my 87 burb. They're too tall for the bodyline, and i really don't like the way they look. I've been racking my brain trying to think of some custom tail light ideas but i'm coming up empty. The only thing i've come up with that's a little different is using stock tail lights or clear (or white) tails and painting over them, or smoking them since they'll be over flat black. Can this be done? Can i paint over clear lenses and have the bulbs show up? I've seen tails in the graphics before, but i've only seen them over red or white, i'm not sure how it will be over flat black.

That looks kinda cool...

[Hoods69BadBowTie]

Originally Posted by jumbo

I'm not really digging the caddy lights on my 87 burb. They're too tall for the bodyline, and i really don't like the way they look. I've been racking my brain trying to think of some custom tail light ideas but i'm coming up empty. The only thing i've come up with that's a little different is using stock tail lights or clear (or white) tails and painting over them, or smoking them since they'll be over flat black. Can this be done? Can i paint over clear lenses and have the bulbs show up? I've seen tails in the graphics before, but i've only seen them over red or white, i'm not sure how it will be over flat black.

Yea I kinda like that look as well.

[jrsmith_2010]

x2 im liking the caddy lights as well.

but i think that the new chevy silverados lights would look good, they would keep a very close bodyline as ur ur burb

jrsmith

[blazn79]

On your Caddy lights if you had switched them and rotate them so the fat part is at the top and start them at the first body line and ran them down to the bottom of the rear quarter they would've looked much better
drop me your e-mail and I'll show you a pic!
harrinsign@comcast.net

[BLE 'BURBAN]

Originally Posted by blazn79

On your Caddy lights if you had switched them and rotate them so the fat part is at the top and start them at the first body line and ran them down to the bottom of the rear quarter they would've looked much better
drop me your e-mail and I'll show you a pic!
harrinsign@comcast.net

Share it with all of us!!!

[jrsmith_2010]

Originally Posted by BLE 'BURBAN

Share it with all of us!!!

x2

[blazn79]

Not my truck, but this is what I was talking about!

[jrsmith_2010]

i like them!

[joe231]

wow! do you have a frenched in license plate box in your window??
how was that accomplished?

[jumbo]

Originally Posted by joe231

wow! do you have a frenched in license plate box in your window??
how was that accomplished?

dude, it's just a lexan window with the license plate box built in there, i hate it, i never liked it, that's one of the first body mods i'm tackling, i'm doing a roll pan with the plate in the middle. i already have donor barn doors with good windows, lol. The box in the window is all cracked and lets in water like a mofo.

and desertrat, thanks for the photoshops, but do you really think i'm gonna keep that nasty roll pan and the 3" barn door hinges, lol? the photoshops look like 59 caddy tails, i really liked that look in my s10 but i don't think i could make it look right in the burb.



blazn, thanks for the idea, that's actually pretty cool looking, and that's the style roll pan i'm going with (having the channel that the doors close in making the roll start flush with the doors instead of sucking underneath the doors.

[joe231]

Originally Posted by jumbo

dude, it's just a lexan window with the license plate box built in there, i hate it, i never liked it, that's one of the first body mods i'm tackling, i'm doing a roll pan with the plate in the middle. i already have donor barn doors with good windows, lol. The box in the window is all cracked and lets in water like a mofo.

that is nuts, never seen anything like it.

[jrsmith_2010]

i love the way this burb looks, seen it in the c10 bagged thread.

[killthewabbit]

Here you go, Joe. They're not as common as they used to be.

http://www.fbirides.com/product.asp?...icks&idno=8782

[87 dually burb]

I've been lookin at 3rd brake lights on newer truck and thought of putting a pair in the "d" pillar beside the back windows
I'm frenching a tag box in the tailgate of mine
got 3 square body burb all tailgates

[joe231]

Originally Posted by killthewabbit

Here you go, Joe. They're not as common as they used to be.

http://www.fbirides.com/product.asp?...icks&idno=8782

wow, neato

[smashingchuck]

here's my caddy tails.

[lifted 75 k5]

i like that looks good

[justpball]

Painting over them works great, here is my stang with grey over them

[trenchwarfare]

Originally Posted by justpball

Painting over them works great, here is my stang with grey over them

What paint did you use?

[justpball]

custom mixed color for the top of my car and I just dusted 2 light coats of the paint over them and cleared them.