repro tail lights for early Z

[kurtwwalters]

Just saw on EBay - Too Intense Restorations has reproduction tail lights for 240s. About time sombody made some. Just the lenses for $285 shipping in Jan. Next payday....

[Arne]

An excellent start. But the part that everyone needs is the chrome trim. My lenses are OK, just need polishing. But the chrome trim is shot. Who is going to do that?

Edit - They have the JDM/Euro style lenses on their web site as well. Add $10 for amber bottoms.

[26th-Z]

Look these people up, Arne.

http://www.cvvacuumplaters.com/

[Arne]

Look these people up, Arne.

http://www.cvvacuumplaters.com/

I figured that there had to be someone out there replating that stuff. My left side is intact enough to replate, so all I need now is an intact right side trim to match it. But finding a cracked or broken right side light that still has the trim in one piece shouldn't be TOO hard - I hope. (Not that my car is anywhere near ready for me to be worrying about the tail light trim yet. :classic: )

[Gav240z]

Just saw on EBay - Too Intense Restorations has reproduction tail lights for 240s. About time sombody made some. Just the lenses for $285 shipping in Jan. Next payday....

Is that for a set of 4? I want to get new lenses for my car but have found new tail lights to be extreme especially for the "EURO" Aussie style amber bottom's.

Mine have hairline cracks that annoy me .

Thanks 26th for the link won't help me but at least I know the process now might find someone local :cheeky:

[71ZZZZZ]

Nice to see these are back out but they're only the lenses...not the entire housing..I see they don't have the raised ribs for chroming like the originals. My resto budget is already out the roof...these will have to wait...

:beard:

[Arne]

Nice to see these are back out but they're only the lenses...not the entire housing..I see they don't have the raised ribs for chroming like the originals.

You are supposed to re-use your existing chrome trims. That makes them not that great a deal for me, the the chrome trim is the part that's bad on mine.

Is that for a set of 4? I want to get new lenses for my car but have found new tail lights to be extreme especially for the "EURO" Aussie style amber bottom's.

You can per-order either style at the following page, scroll down about half-way:

http://www.datsunrestore.com/photo4.html

And here is the JDM/Euro/Aussie style:

Large picture:

http://www.datsunrestore.com/images/240Zeurob.jpg

[cremmenga]

I have thought about doing my rear lenses in clear plastic with colored bulbs, has anyone seen this, and is it even legal?? there is a place around where I live that makes plastic moldes that I"m going to go ask about, if anyone else wants in let me know??!!

[Gav240z]

I have thought about doing my rear lenses in clear plastic with colored bulbs, has anyone seen this, and is it even legal?? there is a place around where I live that makes plastic moldes that I"m going to go ask about, if anyone else wants in let me know??!!

I've seen it on a Z in Japan it looks crap . But hey that's just my opinion.

[cremmenga]

I've seen it on a Z in Japan it looks crap . But hey that's just my opinion.

totally respect it too!! I didn't know if it would look good. I have never seen it done, but I wish i could find some pics.

[Gav240z]

I think they were off another model car like Skyline from memory I'll see if I can dig it up at some stage but in all honesty the best tail lights on a Z are the stock ones from what I've seen.

There was a nice blue Z with skyline style tail lights that I didn't mind though.

The fact that you can get these repo ones is great since mine have a few cracks and finding new ones is impossible especially in Australia where we had the amber style "EURO" style ones .

[Arne]

The fact that you can get these repo ones is great since mine have a few cracks and finding new ones is impossible especially in Australia where we had the amber style "EURO" style ones .

I understood that ALL 240Zs got the amber bottoms, except the US versions. Unfortunately for the rest of the world, The US versions vastly outnumbered the non-US cars, making non-US parts scarce at times.