Hot Rods Ideas for tail lights

Been working on this project for about three years now and hope to have it fired up and rolling this spring but just looking for some input about other than the stock tail lights for it. I know i should have thought of this before paint, but first build always has a few f ups. I have the stock tail lights but in kinda rough condition and not really crazy about them. Looking at 40 Chev tail lights and they actually look like they will fit real close with the curvature of the fenders. Just looking for some other ideas that might fit also.

 

Hogans Heros ha lets see the stockers

 

41 Studebaker T/Lights

 

Perhaps overdone, 1950 Pontiac. Clean and simple.
Ha, remember some '70s street rods with '66 Mustang tail lights...

 

These are the stock ones, and also some made by Technostalgia that i might go with,but hate to order them and get a better idea

 

those pontiac ones are nice and clean looking but i have the stock mounting holes to contend with

 

What about 50 Chevy lights similar to yours but different ?

 

Don't do '59 Caddy.

 

39 Ford tear drop tail lights, they are elongated and would probably cover the screw holes. HRP

 

'49-'50 Lincoln Cosmopolitan might fit that radius. The shallow ones.

 

47 Dodge?

 

40 willys
fabricator john
miss you dad

 

If the 39 Ford doesn't work the 38/39 Lincoln Zephyr tail lights are a bit larger. HRP

 

https://www.taillightking.com/
I have never bought anything from them, but a good place to shop around.

Gary

 

I like the original. Jack E/NJ

 

I'd want to do a frenched in tail light myself. Alot of options out there for that.

 

I’ve always thought these would look good on round fenders. Harley tombstones.


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I actually tried fitting one of these to my 47 Olds, but the contours are off. Not sure if the 40 Chevy has the same contour as the Olds, though.

 

Since you already painted the car, go with the stock ones.

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59 vette tail lights

 

- taillightking.com

 

So then ...you want some other taillight, different from what it came with originally , but you want them to fit into the same mounting holes as the original ones did.
Hum...well.. ok ....aaahh...moving on.

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Pretty sure he just wants whatever will cover the stock holes, not fit them. And pretty sure he doesn't want anything that requires damaging new paint either. Seems like a simple request he made.

 

I understood his request, I was more getting at that most of the other idea's would require some modifications of mounting and that would require some paint touching up.
Thats kind of a tricky mounting area due to the roundness multiple ways .
Another option would be leaving the original mounting assembly and come up with a custom lens, of course originals being made of glass, plastic lens can be altered from something else to fit the hole or fab ones from red plastic stock material.
Hope something works out for you..I wouldn't get to hung up on it ,you could always run the stockers till you run across something you like and that will fit..

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Don't forget the oval '46-'48 Ford taillights...they are available in repro...Check out Carpenter's site...

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