check out these tail lights

[manoa matt]

Hey guys, just saw this while browsing the net. Check out the tail lights. There are a few other subtle mods to the body.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Fiat-Fia ... enameZWDVW

[stefhahn]

Why do people spend their time on horrifying cars?
This is.... not nice ..... but at least is the back consistent with the front.
ciao,
Stefan

[spiderrey]

id have to agree. workmanship seems good, but lacks taste. when modifying someting, the idea is to make an improvement. i dont see it.

[racydave]

actually I always thought Spiders look better with round taillights, I like it, but have heard comments otherwise...

[mdrburchette]

I just don't think they compliment the Italian curves. Maybe a series of round lights might be better than just one big one.

[Danno]

I just don't think they compliment the Italian curves. Maybe a series of round lights might be better than just one big one.

So you think the stock lights DID compliment the curves? Instead of retyping, I'll copy and [paste my Mira post when this was posted over there...

I kinda like it. I love the lines of my spider, but there are two things that
take a huge dump on the italian beauty (worse on later models) The bumpers and
the tail lights. It's like pinin said "here is our masterpiece, and this is
Bubba, he'll be taking over the design of the taillights and bumpers, you can
just slap those on later" I'm messing with my lights right now. I'm sure some
purists will poo-poo my bastardization of the car, but this is a Fiat, not a
correct-numbers-classic-muscle-car which would have the potential of bringing
close to 200K at auction.
To each his own, i guess.

[pope]

Book em Danno, You are so correct.
The 5-mile an hour bumpers were probably designed by an intern one summer. Its just we have gotten so used to then, it looks weird if they're different. Those tail lights have always been the worst design elements of the car.
The guy on Ebay tried and for that I give him huge credit. I dont think that they fit with the look of the car. Especially the front blinker light that are half hid by the bumper. The tail lights are recessed into the body like a kit car in the 80's would have done it. They also look like an early 60's Ford Falcon or Galaxie. The lights should definitely be round and smaller and in a series.
But how can you knock a guy for trying something new. And that car is in great shape! Very clean. Not everyone can be a PininaFarina. In fact even they miss, look at the bumpers and taillights!!!!

Pope

[mdrburchette]

Daniel, I don't recall saying the stock taillamps complimented the Italian curves either, but they look better than those big round ones in my opinion. So you're saying my rearend ain't sexy? You ought to see in it person!

[Danno]

Denise, you are a dirty dirty woman, so you have this coming....Do you have a lot of junk in the trunk, because your rear seems to be sagging?...

Anyway, I can at least concede to the description that they look very "kit car in the 80's"-Pope, 2008....

[spiderrey]

the left ones tilted. looks like your winking

[So Cal Mark]

Fess up D! what did you back into? or did the mule kick it?

I like the round lights on a Spider, but that version needs more than one. The front doesn't look right with the light behind the bumper. But overall, the buy it now price isn't bad at all for the car. But as I've learned with customizing, most people only like what THEY change on a car

[pope]

Is it just me or does it look like the guy used a large can of peaches as a template for drawing the circle for the lights? I wish he used a Campbells soup can instead.

Pope

[mdrburchette]

the left ones tilted. looks like your winking

Never could get my bumper tweeked right after "the accident". I had just finished putting all the exterior pieces back on after Ron painted it. I didn't even have a chance to pull it out of the shop when my father in law ran right into the left quarter panel and pushed the car into the wall, damaging the right side too. He had finished a brake job on his own car and failed to test the brakes before pulling it out. It took another week to straighten and repaint the entire back half of the car and rework those bumpers. The only saving grace was that I had just went to the house with my 3 month old. Between the car and the wall was a baby swing that Randi would have been swinging in that got destroyed during the accident so all that got hurt were my feelings and my sagging rearend!

[radiopilot]

I actually think the round lights look ok... but I believe two lights similar to the Ferrari 328 or the 456m
would have been much more elegant, sportier, and functional...

http://www.ferraricars.org/img/ferrari- ... ign-02.jpg

http://www.ferraricars.org/img/ferrari- ... ion-03.jpg

I wonder if it would be a nice mod for my next car. Wishing...

Nick

[racydave]

Im glad alot of folks keep theirs correct. I have a resto on my 61, and feel the need for correctness there. But my 79 Spider is what I have for my own expression. Id hate to do alot of work to something and overhear someones comments. But it goes with the territory. Thats why I like correct cars. Id also like to think of my mods as improvments.