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?
Custom Taillights
Re: Custom Taillights
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
Re: Custom Taillights
I really like that a lot! It reminds me of some of the older muscle cars with sequential tail lights.
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- Your car is a: 1976 Spider - sold
- Location: Goldendale, WA
Re: Custom Taillights
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?
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
76 FIAT Spider - Sold
Re: Custom Taillights
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.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?
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
Drill holes for mounting screws and line box with aluminum foil
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)
Mount guts in plastic electrical box
Disassemble trailer marker lights
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
Cut rubber gaskets for both exterior/interior mounting surfaces
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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- Your car is a: 1981 2000 Spider
- Location: North East Ohio
Re: Custom Taillights
Yeah my crazy wife always confuses it as her kitchen bar... lol!Danq wrote:I like the granite work bench in your garage