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12-29-2004 06:14 PM #3
I don't have a digital picture of this to post, but I will tell you a story about the 39 Ford tail lights. When I built my 27 Ford roadster I put 39 lights in the rear of the glass body, just below where the trunklid would have been, if the glass body had a trunk. These lights were not bright at all, and numerous times I nearly got rearended in traffic. I had cut out both doors and made then functional, and the only thing that gave away the fact that the body was glass was the lack of a trunklid. I cut out the glass trunklid area and fabricated a trunklid frame from 1" square tubing , formed to match the body contours, and skinned it with 22 ga. sheetmetal with 100 louvers cut into the skin (there was no inner solid skin). I then fabricated a trunk floor and sides from 3/4" marine plywood glassed into place. This had to be the worlds most useless and smallest trunkspace, due to the large frame kick up over the rear end, however I bought a pair of 4" diameter red stoplights and mounted them inside the trunk area, one on each side. Normally, they would be totally hidden, but when I stood on the brakes or used my signals, anybody following behind me could see those lights from 200 feet away, thru all the louvers.Old guy hot rodder





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