Street rod taillights come in all shapes and sizes and are as varied as the imagination of the builder. Walk through any rod run and you'll find cars with little slots using diode illumination, billet rectangular taillights, and even the wide Cadillac third brake lights used as taillights incorporated into the rear of fiberglass cars. With the growing trend toward more traditional cars, many of the older taillights are back in favor with rodders. Two taillights that have always been popular are the '41 Chevy and the '39 Ford teardrop lights because they are small and can be used on a wide variety of cars. In the process of building a traditional '36 Ford, we decided to install a set of '39 Ford taillights. The lights could have been bolted directly on the fenders because the shape of the '36 fenders are similar to those of the '39, but we wanted them to stand a little straighter for better visibility, so we frenched them into the fender. In this story we'll show you how we installed them into a set of Fairlane Company fiberglass fenders.
