Smoothed tail light bezels!!!

[70fastbak 16]

So I felt like a change today, so I decided to do some filler work!

Ive always liked the look of the billet tail light bezels that you can get for earlier cars but never saw anything available for 70's.

Plus id want 'blacked' out billet bezels for my car, so.........

Im doing the boss 302 look on my car with all the black accents so I did this......

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[69NC 21]

Sweet! you need to post a picture of them on the car. I bet that looks sick.

 

Great idea.

[70fastbak 16]

Sweet! you need to post a picture of them on the car. I bet that looks sick.

 

Great idea.

 

Yea I like how they turned out.

Not a quick job, gotta be patient with the sanding block, then even more so with the round sanding block for all the inside corners.

The first step was to sandblast all the flaking chrome off, then fill all the recessed areas with 3m panel bond.

24 hours later grind down/smooth out the panel bond, then start with the filler.

The small lip on the part that goes towards the lens was ground away with a carbide then also smoothed with filler.

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In progress....

 

[miketyler 15]

That does look interesting and somehow remind me of the current model Mustang tail lights. I am not that crazy about the current model design but those look more like a better spin on the original. Would like to see what they look like once they are installed in a back panel.

[70fastbak 16]

That does look interesting and somehow remind me of the current model Mustang tail lights. I am not that crazy about the current model design but those look more like a better spin on the original. Would like to see what they look like once they are installed in a back panel.

 

That was the idea somewhat.

Obviously I'm doing a restomod and just wanted to do something a little different back there.

If I end up not liking them I'll toss them and buy new ones.

I couldn't have used these anyways so nothing to loose by trying.

[miketyler 15]

Be sure to post up pics of them installed. They could be a real nice touch to a restomod car.

[69Tool 16]

Those look great, like others have said, please post pics of them installed. Great work!

[Rip Rock 13]

Good job. Also in for pics!

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So I thought id throw one on quick to see what it looks like.

I think im going to stick with them, I like the look even better on the car and once the tail light panel gets blacked out will probably look even better.

 

Edited June 26, 2014 by 70fastbak

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[Grabber70Mach 107]

Those do look good, I like the way they came out and look on the car.

[RPM 1,190]

Hot damn, those are exceptional! I don't know how you got the idea from the new bezels, but they are a complete success. So clean, simple and how Ford should have designed them, imho. You certainly have an eye for design. Congrats.

 

Bob

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Hot damn, those are exceptional! I don't know how you got the idea from the new bezels, but they are a complete success. So clean, simple and how Ford should have designed them, imho. You certainly have an eye for design. Congrats.

 

Bob

 

I wanted something cleaner looking but without really changing the looks.

Something that somebody see's n thinks theres something different about it but cant put their finger on.

Obviously a mustang guy will know right away.

Just cleaning it up a little, im deleting the side markers also, I really don't like how big ford designed them on the 70 and the fact that one is horizontal and the other vertical, they are going.

Thanks the for the kind comments guys.

[rodbrady 18]

Great look! Especially when you black out the tail!

[Footcutter 13]

Nice!!

[SparkyGT 26]

Looks awesome, i may try that on my 66 for kicks