Complete tail light swap

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Blackhatguy

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Somebody backed into my tail light and broke it, I tried to find a replacement and after 4 hours of being frustrated online over the prices and availability of these things I snapped and went an entirely different route.

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Boy, when you snap you really snap.
Sure enough, and I'll admit too I was a little worried the whole process through. I'm a fabricator and a welder, but definitely not a body man. Got it figured out though and It don't really look that bad
 
You can "snap" anytime in my garage. What kind of beast is parked next to your Dart? I'm too old, but still curious. Back in the day,(lies, lies, and more lies....)
 
That is great. I like modifications that look so clean, they appear as if they are original.
 
You can "snap" anytime in my garage. What kind of beast is parked next to your Dart? I'm too old, but still curious. Back in the day,(lies, lies, and more lies....)
That's a 2016 Sportster roadster, with heads, cams, intake, headpipes from an XR1200, and chambered stainless mufflers I made myself. It made 96 horsepower with the stock air box and paper filter. I've got a better one on it now, figuring it might make right around 100.

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I'm way too old, and I know it. I'll never throw a leg over another saddle again, except maybe an old oater, but the pipes really caught my eyes. You have some serious fabrication skills. Anyone can learn to put mud and paint over your work. My hat's off to you, Texas!
 
What the hell vehicle sit's up that high to hit you there and never touched the bumper? Great repair by the way.
had his tailgate down and backed into the parking spot. I was still sitting in the car when it happened
 
I've seen weapons brandished over such incidents. I'm glad all were sane. I envy your fabrication skills. Outstanding!
 
I know it's an A body forum, and I really like your Dart, but DAMN! them pipes are cool!
 
Gee , add a chrome ring to the body and it will look like a LARGE ‘63 tail light .

Nice pipes !
 
Gee , add a chrome ring to the body and it will look like a LARGE ‘63 tail light .

Nice pipes !
I was thinking of that, the flat space around the new bucket looks like it's just crying out for a chrome bezel. I just have to fabricate something out of stainless, maybe something that resembles the headlight trim rings?? Just a thought
 
Tail-lamp designs change too often, almost every year and between Dart, Valiant, and Barracuda even in the same year. Is that a 1963 Dart? I prefer the long thin tail-lamps on my 1964 Valiant, but different sheet-metal. Those replacements actually look slicker than the factory design. From a GM or Ford? For some, companies are beginning to fab LED replacements.
 
Tail-lamp designs change too often, almost every year and between Dart, Valiant, and Barracuda even in the same year. Is that a 1963 Dart? I prefer the long thin tail-lamps on my 1964 Valiant, but different sheet-metal. Those replacements actually look slicker than the factory design. From a GM or Ford? For some, companies are beginning to fab LED replacements.
This is a 64 dart, but I have had really bad luck trying to find replacement lenses for it. Laysons never got back to me, their supplier in Australia said that since I'm in America I need to go through Laysons, and both of mine are too gone to cast a mold from. The description on speedway motors said that these I bought are 1950 Pontiac replacements/reproductions. That's all the info I really have on them, but they are real glass lenses so I will never have to worry about them fading again.
 
I stumbled on this thread looking for info on LED light retrofits but found a bad *** tail light fix. I dig those way more than the original, looks sleeker and even more period correct if that's even possible.
 
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