For comparison. Four stock tail/brake.



Now with bubbles.

 

 

 

Out of interest what is the best place to buy these bubble tail lights, I have quite liked them ever since I saw them on Jughead's car.

 

Got mine at ecklers.probably the other corvette parts sellers sell them too.

 

HEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Where did you get those?

 

They're just 5" round you can pick up at any auto parts store, cheap around $16 for 4.

 

Do they bolt right up?

 

I'm interested too. Did you just buy the lenses or was it the entire assembly?

 

Like Autozone? Did the buckets come too or was it just the lenses?

 

Just the lenses, had to fab the buckets out of household stuff.

 

Would you care to walk us through how you did it? Those are smart looking, and I really dig how they set off the rear end.

 

I agree..... tell us what/how you did it.....

For anyone who's buying the bubble lights from Ecklers or so: unless your car is white, paint the rim of the white plastic buckets black before you install the taillights

 

Also, you can trim them so they recess further and even if black, you still can't see the bucket. I am doing that to this Vette, like was done to one I sold.

 

As I recall I beat the old lenses out, (mostly disintegrated) and saved the white parts that holds the lightbulbs. Now comes the Bubba-ish parts, after buying the 5" lenses I took 4 of those plastic cd covers that come on a 50 pack of CD's, probably could use an ice-cream container or anything that goes out to around 5" and painted them flat black. Next I drilled a hole big enough to fit the bulb through and screwed that to the old bulb holder bucket. Next I just used the glue-gun to attach the lenses to the open side, (that's why you don't see any metal screw heads) and reinstalled the white holder parts back into the original frame holes, the bulb goes back into the bucket and through the drilled hole, so changing bulbs are easy. Now my own preference was to hook up the outside lights to the inside lights so when I put on the brakes or turn signals, both lights come on. I had to hook up a separate backup light under the car a bit. It was one of those things I wanted to do in one afternoon so that's how it happened. My car is a '74 and modded a fair bit, so beating out my old taillights have no effect on me as I will probably croak with this car still in my name, but for those who need to swap back to originals a different route would be the bubble lights or a different mod, but this was about $16 and some flat-black paint.

 

Boy you wren't kidding about the home-made stuff. I was thinking differently. I still like the flat lenses so I wonder how hard it would be to fab my own buckets.

 

Here is the before, just too dead looking.

 

Do you still have the middle two...the ones with the reverse lights?

 

nope, garbage.

 

I have four bubble lenses. Let me know if you want them. $20.00 plus shipping.
Tony