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Old 06-29-2012, 04:56 PM
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Originally Posted by badhombre
guess noone likes my tails. *sadface*
Kind of liked your design. Like it much better than the photoshops of the diff. sets of lights, that look like mustangs. Your design just needs to be re-defined some.
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I was just messing around and came up with this: Red strip light on the inside perimeter about an inch or two from the edge that lights up with the DRLs. Similar to the Chargers, but not so bright and obnoxious. Brake lights light up sequentially, but very fast like a strobe... Enough to catch your eye. Of course for this, the lens would need to be smoked or frosted. You'd need to add a red reflector in the housing, too.

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Did 6LE ever decide to possibly make the clear honeycomb lights?
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6 pages of tease!
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Originally Posted by badhombre
here's my interpretation of what I would like to see/do based on the idea of another forum member here. I also had the idea of using the 93-97 base model tails and painting them to create this effect. a little bit of a throwback design. what do you guys think?

This is beautiful.
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Originally Posted by badhombre
here's my interpretation of what I would like to see/do based on the idea of another forum member here. I also had the idea of using the 93-97 base model tails and painting them to create this effect. a little bit of a throwback design. what do you guys think?

I like this!
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6LE still deciding on this?
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This seems like a no-no, kind of hard to come up with something better than stock.
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I think the clear is a neat design and I'm really liking the throwback as well. I love the honeycomb but that throwback really fits nice on there... thinking of possibly doing this
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Originally Posted by badhombre
here's my interpretation of what I would like to see/do based on the idea of another forum member here. I also had the idea of using the 93-97 base model tails and painting them to create this effect. a little bit of a throwback design. what do you guys think?

here's my idea, all from hating the rear end of my car, I did some tracing/sketches the old fashion way, using taillights with the look of your design but alter the WHOLE rear of the car as described in the sketches attached. Its a sorta "widebody" concept for everything from the center of the rear wheel wells back.
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on silver...?

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kind of like that on silver.
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the black matches my ceta.. I think i'm going to atleast give it a try, something to keep me busy appearance wise, anybody have experience taking apart tail light housings? will the black stripes wetsand off leaving the red underneath of it, or am I going to have to somehow replace the lenses completely??
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Someone really needs to make these. The red just doesn't fit in, like the 3rd brake light.
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Dan, do you wanna see the retro style or the fully clear honeycombs? I'm going to tackle one of them soon
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Both of them. lol.
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I have an idea for a different project that involves lens still, so how could one replicate a lense shape and fill in however you want the rest? Is it possible to make a "mold" from our tail lights with plexiglass, or somehow actual glass?
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I love the retro ones. They look especially good on your silver car. Love the hood stripes too.

I say for experimental purposes just pick up a set of v6 tailights from a 93-97 bird and lay some vinyl over them. Or mask them off and paint the black areas. That would keep from sacrificing your current ones and the paint or vinyl could always be taken off, redone, tweeked, etc.
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