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<font color="purple"> I can get a pair of 62 Vette lights cheap and the angle is really close to my car. I of course have been wanting to smooth out the rear and am moving the plate down lower. So, I did a Photoshop to see, and did it with with the plate in 2 different locations. Idaes on the plate too would be cool. Oh, I used a different car because it better matched the anle of the Vette pic, but I put my plate on it. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthre...ins/tongue.gif </font>

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<font color="purple"> Plate location #2. </font>

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How about in the 1/4s, maybe a little frenching?

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your car almost looks like a 49 woody from the back, i'd go with tinbender on this one....try the quarters and up a hair. it looks good where you have them, but give us some more views with the lights in the quarters.....oh, and post a side shot of your ride, i never seen it. i like it.

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That thing got a Hemi? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthre...mlins/grin.gif

Billy

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<font color="purple"> Here is the rear now. stock except bullet Lucas lenses instead of flat. </font>

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That thing got a Hemi? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthre...mlins/grin.gif

Billy

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<font color="purple"> I wish! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthre...mlins/grin.gif

I think the lights might be too big to look good in the quarters. They would at least end up at an angle, so if I do the quarters it'll be the stock lights tunneled in. </font>

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<font color="purple"> Just resized a better pic of the current look. </font>

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I like the lights you have now much better, leave them where they are.
I would get rid of that licence plate frame, use the bumper from your photo shop, chrome the hinges, shave the emblem and straighten the tip of the exhaust.

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<font color="purple"> I photoshop made that bumper, but it is similar to the real one I did. I just need to make brackets for it. I want to loose the bulk of the plate for sure, but keeping the chrome frame I had made. I don't know if I should put it down on the bumper or sink it in the lid. The braket it is on now pushes it out and it is too high. I am going to shave the handle and emblem for sure. I like the chrome hinges idea. The exuast tip I will deal with after I get the bumper in place, I will get a better clue where it should exit.

I also had the idea of putting another set of the stock lights below those. </font>

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How about chopping some tri-5 chevy fins/lights into the back...

End up looking like a shortend 57 http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthre...mlins/cool.gif

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I say find a set of '58 Chev Del Ray taillights and use them in a rolled pan, kinda like the Ala Kart.
What ya think?

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I like what your doin' -- and I'd vote for Number 2. Consider changing your trunk handle to a push-button or key-lock type, then mounting your plate on one of those spring-loaded hinged brackets they used in the 50s (when the gas filler was behind the plate). That way you could just fold down the plate to open the trunk -- and not have to mess with any electronics. I kinda prefer the stock bumper to that push-bar, too , unless it REALLY had a Hemi. Just my 2 centavos, bitchen' little car!

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Photoshop them into the roof just above and outboard of the back window, like on a Citroen...

Make the trunk and fenders completely clean and french the plate way back up under the pan so the intersection red light cameras can't see it but a cop sitting in a car 25 feet behind it can.

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<font color="purple"> Funny, I was gonna put this tube bumper and the 58 Chevy taillights I already have in a roll pan on the gasser truck. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthre...ins/tongue.gif

I'm not gonna go with poppers, the floor of the trunk is flat and i can do a latch underneath with no problems.

Citroens, the one thing that bothers me about them is the taillights. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthre...ins/tongue.gif </font>

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<font color="purple"> OK, the Chevy lights and the plate tucked under. </font>