Posted by Clint Dixon on Friday, January 06, 2006 at 7:32PM :
In Reply to: Accurate placement of Taillights? posted by Northern Calif Dave on Friday, January 06, 2006 at 1:35PM :
I was wondering who would be the first to bust me as there are a select few out there who already know. Marty was close, so I have to fess up.
My drivers side brackets are original but I have seen only one original passenger side bracket since 1980. I made my passenger side bracket to replicate, as close as possible, the one original bracket I once saw on a truck in northern Wisconsin. The passenger side bracket on that truck was of a design where the light bucket mounted directly to the cast bracket, not to an intermidiate stamped steel bracket like the license plate bracket on the drivers side. Here is a photo of a really bad casting taken off of the one good one I made. I have thought of reproducing both of these brackets in cast bronze. The passenger side is not original but it does place the light in correct relationship to the stake pocket as shown in the other photos in the posts below. From the back, the tail lights are symetrical. The only problem with reproducing these is that I can not replicate the special stamping of the license plate bracket.
Marty, for flushing me out, you will get the first one of the next batch I have made. ;^)
Junior
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