INSTALLATION COMPLETE! - A look at the Left Side

WELLA!

I took this photo without a flash using a hand-held light to make it easier to see the lens.

Reproduction lenses are available for about $10 each, and they can be purchased without the "bowtie" logo molded into the plastic, as you saw in the first of this series of pictures. I had my friend the silkscreener put the logo where the bowtie would have been.

Though the word doesn't show up when you brake (I didn't really want it to), it does look GREAT (I think) when the lights are off. It also looks pretty cool when the tail lights are on, but not the brake lights.

I used the longer-life Sylvania bulbs here - I hope I don't have top replace them for a while.

One more thing - the gaskets that come with the lenses are really thing and flimsy, and didn't seal the lens well against the bucket. Even the original lenses didn't fit well in the buckets before I started all of this.

So.... I took two for each side, glued them together and put a light coat on the lens side (only) and installed them with new #10 x 1" stainless steel sheet metal screws. This should keep moisture out, though the two holes at the bottom of each bucket, which are there, presumably, to allow for drainage of condensation and any moisture that does get in there, probably don't do much to keep the inside very dry.