Custom Taillights

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cduffy

Custom Taillights

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Hi,
I’ve been restoring one of my Fiats for a while now. During the paint/body phase I welded patch panels into the taillight holes and made my own replacement lights. I need to tinker with the alignment a little bit, but I think it is good enough to get the idea of what it is going to look like. What do you guys think?

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Rain1950

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I like it! Never been fond of the amber lites in the rear. Now get a sequencing unit like Mustangs use for the turn signals
Newell33

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Post by Newell33 »

I really like that a lot! It reminds me of some of the older muscle cars with sequential tail lights.
scarlson
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Your car is a: 1976 Spider - sold
Location: Goldendale, WA

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They look nice.

How are they wired up? Do they all have high/low for tail and brake/turn signals? If you don't mind, where can I find these lights?
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76 FIAT Spider - Sold
cduffy

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scarlson wrote:They look nice.

How are they wired up? Do they all have high/low for tail and brake/turn signals? If you don't mind, where can I find these lights?
They are wired with all three red on each side functioning as tail lights. Additionally the outside light on each side works as the turn signal and the middle two work as the brake lights.

Parts used:
Plastic electrical boxes (Lowes or Home Depot)
Trailor marker lights (Advanced Auto or PepBoys)
Guts from trailor lights (Walmart)
bicycle tube for rubber gasket (Walmart)
Aluminum foil (stole from wifes cabinet)
Wiring harness from old light assembly

Cut the tabs off plastic electrical boxes
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Drill holes for mounting screws and line box with aluminum foil
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Disable a regular trailer brake/turn/tail light assembly for the guts (sorry only have picture of the guts but this was just a cheap $6 light from Walmart)
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Mount guts in plastic electrical box
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Disassemble trailer marker lights
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Carefully cut the cone shaped light holder off the back of the plastic chrome piece and then make the hole as big as you can to allow as much light as possible through to the lens
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Cut rubber gaskets for both exterior/interior mounting surfaces
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I just used the clear lights as they came from the store along with a plastic electrical box for backup lights.

Wire it up to the orginal wiring harness and mount on car (sorry I guess I didn't take pictures of this part).
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Danq
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Your car is a: 1981 2000 Spider
Location: North East Ohio

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Post by Danq »

I like the granite work bench in your garage :D
Dan
1981 spider 2000
cduffy

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Danq wrote:I like the granite work bench in your garage :D
Yeah my crazy wife always confuses it as her kitchen bar... lol!
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