The last two posts on the taillights, Thanks guys. I'm relatively new to working on these old Chevy trucks and to build something I haven't seen before gets me a little nervous. Having posts that like the ideas always helps fuel the passion to keep going.
hotrod1, I can perhaps go one better on the taillight sheet metal... I still have the patterns for the 3 main sections of the housings, not including the circular part I made from 3 inch exhaust pipe. For a reasonable price, I can cut the sections on the torchmate and ship them to you.
You would have to shape the outer flat to match the outer curve of the housing then weld it all together.
Everything in the picture below for both sides, not including the round tubes.
I also loaded the pics of making the eyebrows.
I mentioned before, the main was cut from 4" exhaust pipe, it worked great, the near perfect curve is already there.
I cut a small flange that would give me a flat flange to run a couple screws through to mount the eyebrow.
I welded the flange onto the eyebrow. I stitch welded, I didn't want to heat or burn through to the inside where I screw heads would be mating up to the flange.
The 4 1/2" grinder with the 40 grit flap disc is my go to tool anymore, so agressive yet so fine at the same time.
Perfectly clean on the under side of the weld.
An idea of how it holds to the bed. Simply remove the two screws that hold the taillight in place, remove the tailight, now hold a nut on the backside and tighten the eyebrows with a scredriver.
I need to load more pics, hope this helps so far.