Old-School Shelby tail lights
The Paranoid One
Joined: Apr 2006
Posts: 5,320
From: Texas
RE: Old-School Shelby tail lights
If someone could get these at a reasonable price to work, they would be in the run to make a GOOD amount of money.
Wish I was good at this sort of thing, if I was my *** would be working on it CONSTANTLY to get it going. *hint*
But I am being serious here.
Great idea, great opportunity.
GET IT DONE.
Make yourself some money and make me spend some!
AND POST IT ALL OVER HERE IF YOU DO THE INSTANT YOU DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
People will be doing this if you do.......[sm=hail.gif]
Wish I was good at this sort of thing, if I was my *** would be working on it CONSTANTLY to get it going. *hint*
But I am being serious here.
Great idea, great opportunity.
GET IT DONE.
Make yourself some money and make me spend some!
AND POST IT ALL OVER HERE IF YOU DO THE INSTANT YOU DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
People will be doing this if you do.......[sm=hail.gif]
5th Gear Member
Joined: Sep 2007
Posts: 2,059
From: Nor Cali
RE: Old-School Shelby tail lights
ORIGINAL: Legion5
No, the aftermarket HAS come up with a technically identical but visually less cool in my oppinion copy of the Mustang concept's rear. The lights are a different shape than stock but look good in the aplication definitly. Anyway, the company that made the car bassically would ONLY sell the kit in complete packages, similar to what Chip Foose did, and partly why both mustangs never got popular. You hd to buy the car to get the lights, but the price was reasonable for a car like it.
What they did to fit the setup was they cut the trunk lid and then refinished it. This saves a lot of cost for the kit. What's missing is a center portion which mates to the rear bumper. The same strategy that this company used could be used to save addition costs on the kit. What you would need is simply a peice of plastic that nicely blends into the countours of the rear bumper but does not replace it. It could then be very easily attatched to an existing bumper by a body shop using bondo and then refinishing the bumper.
The kit would consist of:
1 black plastic trim peice for the top of the tail lights going above the trunk
2 left and right sets of plastic headlights
2 left and right sets of plastic trim peices for above the headlights
1 peice of plastic that follows the countours of the bumper and acts as the center panel
1 stainless steel machined gas cap with a c&c eteched pony that's then painted (this could easily be done by hand where the painting happens before the shaping and the etching happens first, a C&C shop would make this cheep)
1 wiring setup.
1 trunk latch system (screw on).
2 peices of interior trunk trim, textured. 1 which covers the bulb replacement and has a recess for the trunk latch and the other which covers the cut in half trunk.
Obviously trunk acess would suck with the kit, but it would be worth it. I don't want to waste any more energy on something that i'm not 100% sure will turn out so I'll leave it at this.
ORIGINAL: 2007CalSpec
I would definitely buy a set but I wonder why the aftermarket hasn't already come up with something like this. Must be too cost prohibitive. They probably can't design one where people can easily install them without some bodywork of some sort.
I would definitely buy a set but I wonder why the aftermarket hasn't already come up with something like this. Must be too cost prohibitive. They probably can't design one where people can easily install them without some bodywork of some sort.
No, the aftermarket HAS come up with a technically identical but visually less cool in my oppinion copy of the Mustang concept's rear. The lights are a different shape than stock but look good in the aplication definitly. Anyway, the company that made the car bassically would ONLY sell the kit in complete packages, similar to what Chip Foose did, and partly why both mustangs never got popular. You hd to buy the car to get the lights, but the price was reasonable for a car like it.
What they did to fit the setup was they cut the trunk lid and then refinished it. This saves a lot of cost for the kit. What's missing is a center portion which mates to the rear bumper. The same strategy that this company used could be used to save addition costs on the kit. What you would need is simply a peice of plastic that nicely blends into the countours of the rear bumper but does not replace it. It could then be very easily attatched to an existing bumper by a body shop using bondo and then refinishing the bumper.
The kit would consist of:
1 black plastic trim peice for the top of the tail lights going above the trunk
2 left and right sets of plastic headlights
2 left and right sets of plastic trim peices for above the headlights
1 peice of plastic that follows the countours of the bumper and acts as the center panel
1 stainless steel machined gas cap with a c&c eteched pony that's then painted (this could easily be done by hand where the painting happens before the shaping and the etching happens first, a C&C shop would make this cheep)
1 wiring setup.
1 trunk latch system (screw on).
2 peices of interior trunk trim, textured. 1 which covers the bulb replacement and has a recess for the trunk latch and the other which covers the cut in half trunk.
Obviously trunk acess would suck with the kit, but it would be worth it. I don't want to waste any more energy on something that i'm not 100% sure will turn out so I'll leave it at this.
Well like I said...The aftermarket companies probably can't design a simple tail light conversion where people can just swap out the old tail lights easily without having to take it to a body shop to have some work done. I for one wouldn't want to go through the hassle of having a body shop cut up my car to install the conversion tail lights no matter how retro/different/cool they look. These companies probably realize that even if they designed a tail light that required some body work, as in the GT-R one, people would be less likely to buy it...thus, the cost to make them compared to consumer interest wouldn't be profitable. I don't consider the tail lights on that GT-R mustang an aftermarket item in the sense that no one can buy it unless you buy the whole car. If the GT-R tail lights were made available I still wouldn't buy it since body work needs to be done. [sm=smiley1.gif]
5th Gear Member
Joined: Aug 2006
Posts: 2,497
From: Near Wash. DC Posts: 13,541
RE: Old-School Shelby tail lights
ORIGINAL: 2007CalSpec
Well like I said...The aftermarket companies probably can't design a simple tail light conversion where people can just swap out the old tail lights easily without having to take it to a body shop to have some work done.
Well like I said...The aftermarket companies probably can't design a simple tail light conversion where people can just swap out the old tail lights easily without having to take it to a body shop to have some work done.
I for one wouldn't want to go through the hassle of having a body shop cut up my car to install the conversion tail lights no matter how retro/different/cool they look.
These companies probably realize that even if they designed a tail light that required some body work, as in the GT-R one, people would be less likely to buy it...thus, the cost to make them compared to consumer interest
Actually Roush for example, understood this sort of worry where people were scared to do things that seemed difficult like to paint their replacement bumpers. This challenged people of course so what they did is they took it to their advantage. They simply sell prepainted bumpers that you can install in your own drive way. They sell these for more than it costs to do it on your own. This gives them a lot more market opportunity and counters the sort of issue you brought up, Roush parts become very accessible when compared to other sorts of replacement bumpers and it' win win.
To be honest it would be offensive to the hardcore modding community if this wasn't designed with cheep prices in mind, then later a prefabricated kit could come allong in 6 months.
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