Lighting Upgrade

I think I can help if no one is able to by morning, and I can remember how. When I was in the Army I rigged the brake lights to come on when the pedal was pressed, on a Hummer a control box went out and we needed to drive it that day. The lights would come on with the running lights, but would not get brighter when the brakes were hit. I only used to wires bypassed the control box and took the signal from another area. I also used the copper wire from an fire extinguisher bridge a connection, because I found out if 2 different spot were touched along with another wire the lights would work. I have a 69 cuda tommorrow morning I will play around with the car to see if I can help out any. I like jimmy rigging stuff like that. There alot of rigged up vehicles in the Army right now, would not believe how well copper wiring that is used of keep pins in fire extinguishers work on different things, and no I was not a mechanic in the Army.