weird side light??
07-20-2004, 01:57 PM
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weird side light??
G'day Guys,
My parcels finally turned up today from Ecklers and Davies. Like a kid on Christmas morning, I ripped everything open to see what had arrived.
Amongst other things, I had ordered new rear side marker lamps. But.... they won't fit my car?!?!? The guy I bought the car off said the lights were stuffed and he put a piece of coloured plastic in there until he could buy some more. I bought the car before he ever did that.
My car looks like this....
But the lights I bought, labelled as "1974-82 Left/right Rear Side Marker Lamps" look like this...
I've looked under the car and it certainly doesn't look like the guards have been modified to take a different light. Any ideas what I've done wrong? Can anyone suggest what sort of light I should be looking for? :shocked:
Any help would be (a) interesting and (b) useful!
Thanks guys...
My parcels finally turned up today from Ecklers and Davies. Like a kid on Christmas morning, I ripped everything open to see what had arrived.
Amongst other things, I had ordered new rear side marker lamps. But.... they won't fit my car?!?!? The guy I bought the car off said the lights were stuffed and he put a piece of coloured plastic in there until he could buy some more. I bought the car before he ever did that.
My car looks like this....
But the lights I bought, labelled as "1974-82 Left/right Rear Side Marker Lamps" look like this...
I've looked under the car and it certainly doesn't look like the guards have been modified to take a different light. Any ideas what I've done wrong? Can anyone suggest what sort of light I should be looking for? :shocked:
Any help would be (a) interesting and (b) useful!
Thanks guys...
07-20-2004, 02:16 PM
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Originally Posted by zzyzx
That is from an early C3. If it has a metal housing, it is like the one on my '70.
Unfortunately, it looks like they shipped you an earlier model...
07-20-2004, 02:21 PM
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I am with the looks like they have been modified crowd...they are too long to be stock. Check my sig pic...you will see..
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07-20-2004, 02:27 PM
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hard to tell..probably no one. Cutting up a rear light from some type of car to get a piece that will fit would be about the only option. that's how I made the custom rear lights on my truck (I cut up ford parts for that hehehehe 
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I must say, I DO like the longer side marker.
)I must say, I DO like the longer side marker.
07-20-2004, 02:49 PM
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You don't spose it would be from a an '84 or something? From pics I've been looking at, it looks like something like an '84 would fit...
07-20-2004, 03:20 PM
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Damn, worked it out just now. I've scraped away some of the grime and had a look. It must have been shunted up the bum or something before as both lower rear quarter panels have been repaired. Lord knows what the lights were out of then...
07-20-2004, 09:45 PM
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Saudi...they look like they are out of a at least 84-89 vette..My wife had an 89' and always admired how they were a comibination..marker/backup light. They were about that long..check into it. Looks like that is what they used or tried to mod from. Joe.!
07-20-2004, 10:25 PM
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Are there any tell-tale markings on the lens that you pulled out? Anything at all?
