stepside custom tail lights

[76stepsidechevy]

I was thinking about using a 73-77 elco bumper with the lights in it but im having trouble finding one that doesn't cost a fortune. Ive seen the 78-87 bumpers used but they have to be narrowed and don't have a pocket for the licence plate.

[1964Chevy]

I bought LED lights and Frenching cups from a Zephyr. I built the bracket and welded a cover to the open side of the cup. I filled the outside edges with Bondo to make them smooth. They'd be done but I moved them lower and had to weld the bracket holes so I can re-drill them in different spots. I have a LED 3rd brake light over the license plate so the rear of Toad will light up real nice. BTW, I will remove the trailer lights when the LED's are rocking and rolling

[Low84]

That goes really well with the body lines of your truck. Good choice/work!

[JRANGER]

Id go to the junk yard for some cobalt lights....Should be easy to find....Use to love my balt...Even considered tryin to find recaros to install in the truck from one

[85supersierra]

I used these 1950 Pontiac lights from Southern Rod in SC in several Jeeps I built. They work great and are simple to wire,just three wires. Very bright leds and surface mount with two small bolt holes and one hole for the wires

[mooseknuckles]

the very first few posts were prob the best ideas....imo.

[jsenk7414]

I just cut a hole in the fenders and sandwiched the original tail light lense to the housing drilling the screw holes right through the sheet metal. I also added some blue dots. Easy, but wish I had used some different, more unique tail lights...next time.

[Rich84]

Looks pretty cool..But I agree. All that work and keep those ugly darn lights...lol

I am keeping an eye on this thread hoping to see something that I really like.
Anybody have a picture of the plain round lights mounted lower, closer to the bumper??

[INSIDIOUS '86]

I was thinking of drenching in some 70' cuda taillights
My favorite car ever and I'm too poor for one
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[1964Chevy]

Here's Toad all lit up. hmm, I thought I had a picture with the original trailer lights off, guess not, at any rate they are gone now. The LED's are bookoo bright.

[rcsbls2]

Maybe revive this thread?

I have been looking for some ideas and stumbled across this thread. I have posted in a couple of places but this is 73 to 87 so here goes.

A lot of custom light ideas here, some look good, some look really bad, but I'm looking for a way to look different and still say "Chevy Pickup". Maybe that doesn't make sense but to my mind it needs to still look like a truck and I'm not building a custom, although I don't care for stock either. I'm working on a '76 step side, these trucks came with a round 5" tail light and a separate 2 1/2" backup lamp. My idea is to take original light and build an enclosure for it. I took a diet coke box and some tape to show my idea. I removed backup light and lowered this lamp down. I know its crude but I really like the way it updates the original look but helps it flow into body... and says Chevy truck.




I have always liked the later tail lights that GM started using a couple years after this and in talking with owner of this truck we want to keep its identity as a early truck in this series.
So any comments as to how this looks and how I might go about building an enclosure in metal like this?

[TwinTurbo]

I simply fabbed some small billet aluminium pieces and cut out a set of factory lenses from an 80s car (I think it was a VW something). EAsy to fab, looks good (IMO)

Here's a vid where you can see the lights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDecpd7mdrY

[Shugalou]

I've seen on this board that a popular mod back in the day was to use cadillac tail lights - the long vertical shape fits nicely into the big fender.

Heres a sample

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/a...1&d=1315018631

And here's a post about it

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=556774

[Too Tall]

I know it's an old thread.
But I thought I'd throw in mine.
Bumper came off a Malibu station wagon. I believe it was an early 80's.
An El Camino bumper is the same.