I just picked up an extra trunk lid so i can mess around with the lights and license plate housing. I want to keep it clean, so I am thinking of just shaving the inner pair of tails and leaving the tag housing alone. I have a 95 coupe. Anyone have pics of shaved lights and or license plate housings in the eg coupe or hatch?

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shave one or the other. dont both license plate and tail-lights. it looks to balf when both are shaved. i would shave just the lights.

 

a girl i know had the inner tails and liscence plate shaved, it looks sooo good, she has almost everything shaved on her car, it looks so clean if you are into that kind of look

 

i am thinking of just shaving the inner pair of tails and leaving the tag housing alone. but i am having problems finding info on how to shave the lights correctly. You definately cant just fill in the big holes with bondo. Anyone with pics during the process?

 

Anyone have pictures of the steps to shave the tails?

 

http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4291269745&idx=5
this is not the best angle, but I did it on my 95 coupe. I love it, gives the car a different look, after my motor swap is complete i am having the body shop fabricate a metal liscense plate housing. This way it is identical to the factory look but w/o the rectangular line (it would look the same as if you molded the plastic box to the trunk, just to give you and idea). I think a french box is too square for my car

 

http://www.imagestation.com/album/?id=4291269745
i think this link works better, so you dont have to sign in.

 

The truely correct way is to have a body shop weld in a metal panel but if you are going to do it your self there is a way without adding a lot of weight or doing it too ghetto. Make a flat fiberglass panel and epoxy it in place using marine grade epoxy (the slow setting stuff). To make the panel, layer up three or four plys of fiberglass on a flat pane of glass (I use an old glass coffee table for this kind of stuff) Put a layer of car wax on the glass so that the resin won't stick. Use a wide metal putty knife to really squeeze the resin into the fiber and the result will be a very strong, flexible, flat and light weight piece of fiberglass. Cut it to the shape of the taillight, sand off the paint down to bare metal and epoxy the hell out of it. Then just finish it off with a skim coat of bondo and have it painted. If you are carefull the results can be pretty impressive and durable.

Like anything though, it takes time and attention to detail to do it right. Like my mama always said, "you want it bad, you get it bad"

Curved shapes are also possible using molds or forms but that is significantly more advanced and I don't recommend you try it for a first time project. Must crawl before walk grasshopper

Mike