A small, but important issue is the outer tail lights: You can not get to them
from the inside, and the 1950 Pontiac lamps are changed from the inside.
A visitor in my garage pondered if one could make a twist in system for them.
It felt like a reasonably good idea, so Some 20 little tabs for all the tail lights
were cut and filed, three tabs for each light assembly.
Then a mounting was made, by cutting slots for the tabs. The tabs were
welded to a lamp housing, and the whole thing seemed to make sense.
That is until I tried to remove the tail light from the mounting plate. It was hard work
for sure! As the chrome bezel is round, it was almost impossible to remove the
light, without helping from the other side.
The next day a new plan had emerged, and back in the garage, the mounting
studs were removed, and the holes were drilled through the bezel. Small M4
stainless screws with ground down heads were used, and proved pretty
stealthy.
The pic is a bit out of focus, but you can see that the screw heads don't
show that much. Only the outermost tail lights will be mounted like this.