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Old 12-19-2014, 02:05 PM
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I am curious what car these tail lights came from...anyone?
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I am curious what car these tail lights came from...anyone?
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Those look like billet 69 Camaro RS taillights. Link
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Looks like the factory 69 Camaro RS tail lights to me.


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Originally Posted by Zoomin
Those look like billet 69 Camaro RS taillights. Link
Originally Posted by qtlow
Looks like the factory 69 Camaro RS tail lights to me.
Yup.
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Thanks guys, seems they are the aftermarket ones,
I want to go old school and change my tail lights, I want some thing older like my 69 and then with 3 bulbs on each side to sequence flash,
But the camaro ones have that back up lamp in the center and only two blubs each side and I have seen the led versions I just dont want to go led, too modern looking for what I desire...so I keep looking....
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Originally Posted by The13Bats
Thanks guys, seems they are the aftermarket ones,
I want to go old school and change my tail lights, I want some thing older like my 69 and then with 3 bulbs on each side to sequence flash,
But the camaro ones have that back up lamp in the center and only two blubs each side and I have seen the led versions I just dont want to go led, too modern looking for what I desire...so I keep looking....
1969 Camaro RS tail lights don't have the back up light incorporated into the tail light. The back up light is a separate lens located underneath the rear bumper in the valance.
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Originally Posted by 1996Z15
1969 Camaro RS tail lights don't have the back up light incorporated into the tail light. The back up light is a separate lens located underneath the rear bumper in the valance.
Let me go look better seems even with those that center lamp on a side is not a brake/turn lamp, the lense and housing are different.


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Originally Posted by The13Bats
Let me go look better seems even with those that center lamp on a side is not a brake/turn lamp, the lense and housing are different.


The center one might just be a reflector; I see what you're talking about.
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'68 Olds 88 is what is in my ***....

take a look at the shots below.....they not really close up though...

the reverse lights are small 2" glass below /inside the exhausts/bumpers....
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Originally Posted by mrvette
'68 Olds 88 is what is in my ***....

take a look at the shots below.....they not really close up though...

the reverse lights are small 2" glass below /inside the exhausts/bumpers....
Mrvette,
You must have missed my other post where I asked for measurements of the rear, I replied to you,
and with this picture,



You know I dig your car but somewhere on this very forum I read that the wrong badges makes a person a poser and can even get you arrested...

What size tires are the rears in this picture?

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Camaro lights on a Corvette......why does this sound familiar?
Any more pics of the car in the OP? Looks like it might be pretty wild...
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Camaro lights on a Corvette......why does this sound familiar?
Any more pics of the car in the OP? Looks like it might be pretty wild...
Thanks on the rear frame braces they worked out very well, I show them installed in my build thread...

Camaro lights on vettes? I forgot, didnt that get some fans of the new vettes under-roos all knotted up?

I do want different tail lights, it's an old school my memories thing, but I think I am going with 74-77 firebird lights they have 3 bulbs per side I need and are dated enough not to look too modern in a 69

It's on the radical side,






I just can't get into the datsun z headlights on c3's but as a whole this car is fun, I doubt I would fit in it with the tops on but...

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