New Product Announcement!!! 65 Cuda/Valiant Taillight Housings!!!

I agree the price is significant(and high!!), but please consider this.....this particular part is a very complicated casting to produce. It has many complex curves and shapes, therefore more time and expense was involved in the tooling process. And because of the complex curves and shapes it has, it is way more time consuming to produce once the tooling and molding process is completed than say a 68-69 Dart tail light bezel or a 67/69 Cuda back-up bezel. Then there was the tooling to get the black housing-to-body gaskets made...... The simple fact is...it is VERY expensive to get a part like this produced.

If one was to consider the time it would take to locate a pair of housings WITHOUT pits that was suitable for re-chroming, then the actual cost of said re-chromable housings, then the cost of re-chroming, then the cost of locating lenses good enough to put into freshly chromed housings, then the cost of the housing-to-body gaskets and lens gaskets(insignificant cost-wise, but still must be considered none-the-less), then the time factor of getting all this done and ready to install.........well, I think you get the picture.

If you're lucky enough to have a good re-chromable pair laying around, then you are way ahead of the deal. But what about the people who have none to start with and can only find 40+ year old pitted up pieces of junk that would cost a small fortune to be re-worked into a re-chromable condition?

People often complain about the fact nobody reproduces parts for their early A-bodies, but then when somebody does, they complain about the price without stopping to consider what all it takes to get it done. That must be the reason why everybody and their dog reproduces early A-body parts.......

It was mentioned in an earlier post in this thread that NOS housings were readily available....but I've never seen any for sale anywhere, not in the classifieds here, in MCG magazine, or over on moparts,...or even on Ebay. So where are they all???