I've had my vette for almost 9 years now and when I bought it, it didn't have any reverse lights. I don't know what Bubba did with the wiring, but reverse lights were history, while all four lights work as brake lights, and both lights blink on each side when using the turn signals. I like the way the lights work as I feel it's actually safer(double the visibility) than having just the single lights doing each job.

I had a mechanic that looked the car over and determined that it was in good working condition and safe to drive on the road, with the understanding that the reverse lights worked when the car left the shop . Well due to our state now requiring the garages to buy computers and scan each and every car that comes in, my mechanic decided to wait until the state has a better understanding of what they want before he laid down the extra cash, so dropped due inspections this year.

So I am finally motavated to get my butt in gear and get some reverse lights mounted and working

Sorry the pics are alittle dark, but the sun got down alittle too far by the time I finished (2.5 hour job). I had to run wiring for everything, and drill a few holes.





Here are the lights, they're 1"x 2".


For anyone else that may be interested, I bought them here.

I have one question, I plugged the power feed into a male blade connection in the fuse box. Is this protected by any of the fuses in the fuse box, or should I add one inline ?

 

Neat placement for them. Are they bright enough to use or is it just to pass inspections?

 

They are noticable in the day light, but my main concern is for passing the safety inspection at a different garage, I don't want to worry about if it'll pass or not

 

Neat idea Mike.

If those are like some of the Ford lights I've seen, those partial caps come off, which would shed more light and straight out.

How did you wire the reverse lights? Was the original wiring still there?

 

I've been considering sidepipes on 71 ... then bubble tail lenses ... filling stock rectangular exhaust ports in rear panel with rectangular driving lamps wired as reverse lamps ... with one pointed up a bit ... and a separate toggle switch to energize it ... maybe handy for those times when being tailed by inconsiderate high-beamer?

 

 

Thanks everyone Jughead, I wired them with all new wiring. I went from the fuse box to the one side of the TKO transmission reverse switch, then ran another wire from the other side of the switch to the reverse lights. The reverse lights are then grounded with their ground wires completing the circuit. I used yellow wire to use as the power wire for the lights.



I had to drill some 2 access holes into the rear bumper frame with a hole saw to be able to fish the wires from the lights down to be able to connect them.




The nice thing about these lights, is that their flat on the backside so I only had to drill a hole of the 2 wires on each light, and then used 2 self tapping screws to mount them each. I'm still able to install/ remove the license plate with them in place also which is nice.

The white lens are removable, but the bulb would be exposed, so I decided to keep the lense in place

 

Good thinking.

 

What I'm wanting to know is, what knida paint is on your car, looks stunning with the different light angles/colors

 

Thanks Dude :Cheers:

TT that car was 1st painted gold, then it was painted candy apple over it Thanks

 

great idea

 

thats how i'm painting mine. but am stuck between gold or silver under the candy apple.

 

Thanks stickboy

Chris75, I don't know how it would look with a silver base coat, but the gold really shines through nice