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I have a question about Mike Saiki/ Chanin Miyashiro's Luv from the photo gallery. I was just wondering what method did they use to give there tail lights the dark red that they have on there Luv.



I figure either lightly misting with a dark red or black or spayed with a candy. I just noticed how they looked and just was interested in finding out the technic they used.

Thanks in advance!

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some parts stores will carry a smoke tint spray for lights ... its like a clear black you can see threw

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My old but now gone Luv...

Crap.....so it is simple as that. I have restored tail lights with clear, just wondered how they smoked em.....Thanks Cat!!

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hmmm. i might do this to the tails on the pup to hide all the superglue im gonna be using to put them back together. arent run on sentences cool!! lol

i think itll look good on the pup since its black, and will be painted black again when i paint it.

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"but its that gut feeling of you're drawn to what feels right for yourself and what you're passionate about..."

That's the same crap that totaled my LUV, the guy that bought it smacked into the butt of a lifted yota w/ a steel rear bumper... he was going around 55mph and saw the yota but only saw what he thought were just parking lights and at the last minute realized he was stopped and didn't turn/brake in time. Needs all sorts of crap now... heck, even the valve cover I polished cracked to peices...

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-Old ride-82 Luv diesel 5spd with some upgrades
-Past rides-82 Sierra, 78 Coupe De'Ville, 91 2dr Blazer, 86 RX7, 86 Porsche 944T (rear-ended and totaled)
-Curr. rides- 1970 Ford LTD 4dr, 390 4Bbl, 2nd owner! With a few Extras 00' Civic beater...

Well went to the part store and the place where we get our painting supplies. They said they have heard of it but called it something like night shades but they haven't seen it in years. I think I will just play with a little color coat mixed into some clear until I get the tone I like.

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that should work fine

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My old but now gone Luv...

I hope it will. I have some 2002 clear and some left over black and red, I guess I just need to play with it until I like it.

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oh damn I have an article in one of my Truckin magazines that shows how to do that with a rattle can I ll see if I can find it okay.

James

okay they used

SEM products

Scuff & Clean (pn 38338) to clean lense
Plastic Prep (pn 38353)
Flexible Bonding Clear (pn 39863)

1. wipe on plastic prep first
2. get out some scotch brite and use the scuff and clean straight strokes in one direction until take shine off surface
3. spray on a coat of flexible bonding clear
4. using a urethane house of kolor (expensive alternative) candy paint (they used cobalt blue candy)
one part candy
two parts hardner
one part reducer
5. spray on light coats usually about three coats ( as said) more coats turn red to black

I can make some photo copies if you want I dont have a scanner.

James

what magazine and year i might have it , if so ill scan it

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My old but now gone Luv...

November, 2002 Truckin

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/JDM-SMOKE-TINT-LENS-SPRAY-PAINT-HEADLIGHT-TAIL-LIGHT_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ33716QQihZ013QQitemZ230084315929QQrdZ1
smoke tail light in a rattle can

James

Dark rear lenses could be a fix-it-ticket. Be careful unless you like to talk to the badged man.

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OK, I'm over it. Where's the beer?

I was going to post the same, under the vehicle code in most states in reads that tailights must be obvious and visible, if your lights arent bright enough to light up the lens it could be a fix it ticket, so with that said. . .

I have had buddies whom have used window tint, cleaned the lens and applied light tints and it comes out good, and if you get a fix it, yank it off and do it again haha, or if one day you don't like it anymore, yank it off, since a good set of tailights aren't too easy to come by.

-Austin

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1975 Chevy LUV Rockabilly Stepside:
Satin Black, V-8 Traditionally Named "Dean"

No offense but if you are worried about the police, dont do anything to your vehicle, pretty much anything you do to your vehicle can bring on a ticket. I have only been hassled in Wyoming as the cops up there have nothing better to do but cant do anything about it since I dont live there.
Modifying your suspension, modifying your motor, covering head and tail lights, tinted windows, no front plate all are ticketable items and I have been doing this for 20 years and never got a ticket and those are all things that have been done to my vehicles. If you get hassled, I would thank the cop as apperantly all the real crime has been taken care of in your city and now the can worry about petty things like this.
My S10

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RIP R.J.B.

Titled: Well also true, I have no front license plate, there are a lot of offences in the book that are minor modifications to us, but if recieved a painful ticket.

Also in California, cops pretend they have nothing more to do than hassle people in louder modified cars and trucks.

I was just trying to give an alternative that would be an easy fix if *knock on wood* and only if he got pulled over.

Plus if it is too dark, then motorists behind him wont be able to see the brake light and as another poster pointed out, braking in time can be a problem. Who really wants to get rear-ended ?

-Austin

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1975 Chevy LUV Rockabilly Stepside:
Satin Black, V-8 Traditionally Named "Dean"

Just remember "if you can't do the time don't do the crime". I have some incite on how cops think, some officers are on vehicle duty, their sole job is vehicle infractions. Most of them are motorcycle cops. Here in California it takes a act of god to get out of a CHP ticket, they will ticket their mother. I have tinted windows on all of my cars but my wife and I have a "get out of jail free" card that most times get me out of a ticket but not all of the time. Front plates here in California are a big deal. We have allot of cameras on intersections and without a front plate you can't get a ticket so the local police crack down hard on it.

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Thanks for the extra info guys but there is no worries of the police here. As long as you have A working head light and A working tail light and turning signals you are legal in the state of Georgia... They only require a rear license plate and most places don't even care if your tag lights work. Not really saying it's a good thing but in most towns around here people just don't care.

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No problem LUV rush, I forget how strict your state is with stuff like that. I think it is kind of weird that Cali is the most strict with vehicle modifications and they have the most modified vehicles. But I guess it gets totally out of hand out there. As for my covered lights, when I was at my Dads house in Wyoming, we had a knock on the door and an older gentleman asked who owned the truck, I said I do and he asked me why I didnt have any tail lights, I thought that was pretty funny. When I am driving I make sure coming to a stop with someone close behind me, I tap my brakes a couple of times before starting to stop just to give the drive a heads up in case he isnt fully paying attention, the 3rd brake light on the topper helps too. The only time I have been for having a 3rd brake light. They have been on my truck for 12 years and I did get rear ended once, but it wasnt because of my light covers, it was because the punk kid who just got his license was reading the bus stop advertisments across the street.
Forgot to mention, you can even get a ticket for vision obstruction having something hanging from your rear view mirror.

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RIP R.J.B.

Sounds like you are talking about Kentucky.

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