new taillights/home grown

[BIG ORANGE]

I never use my backup lights and had the idear of doing away with them, so I removed the metal between the lens and flipped the taillight bucket over where the bulb would be located on the bottom and change the socket in the backup light housing with one from a taillight housing, I welded the 2 housings together.
Then made my a lens with some translucent red acrylic plastic. What type of plastic would had been more like the original lens as far as see through???
I used led bulbs I got at the parts house. Any imput is excepted both good and bad... I just wanted to do something different on the shop truck.
thanks