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jlcustomz 04-14-2016 06:20 PM

Another rearview concept , opinions needed
 
Just thought I'd see what the c-7 owners thought of this & my use of their tail lights.
I have a highly modified 83' el camino with a 2010camaro nose [soon to be 2016 look] along with many other custom changes including a few vette items.
Never was happy with the rear look & considering adding z-06 tail lights including part of the vents to my 59' chevy inspired aluminum bedcover after reshaping the rear portion.

current look, has ecklers bubble lenses in tailgate. 3 guesses where the tailpipe idea came from.
http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/...pselsxhddw.jpg
side by side with a 2015, this owner like my ideas.
http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/...psd6g6x2yn.jpg
New photoshop concept pic. Bumper is cts-v inspired ,along with the license bucket.
http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/...psvlferrsu.jpg

I know, not a vehicle for everyone. Just trying to improve on it in the parameters of looking a little bit like a batmobile.

Will include many other new changes , such as the custom fendervent below.
http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/...psjzlkkkxn.jpg

Joe Stingray 04-18-2016 10:25 AM

well to tell you the truth.....the C7 tail lights look MUCH better than the ones you have now.

jlcustomz 04-18-2016 06:24 PM

Thanks, The c-3 lights look decent from certain angles, mostly at night, but lights in a truck tailgate never look just right.
Most people either love or hate the new vette lights. I thought of them before in my bedcover, but without reshaping the cover, they just looked odd in a photoshop pic.
Also I think the z-06 version looks better with black .
Wonder if anyone else has used c-7 lights in a non c-7 application yet.:iono:

jlcustomz 05-06-2016 03:28 PM

Well , decided to order the z-o6 tail lights, bezels & harness, Will use different 3rd brake light.

phillip123hastings 05-08-2016 08:09 AM

I dunno. I like the taillights.

jlcustomz 08-03-2016 01:22 AM

Still trying to improve my design before getting started. This sloppy pencil drawing I did has several more changes to flow better & give a more c-7 vette like appearance.
http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/...pssuyhsemo.jpg

Hopefully at least batman would approve.:biggrin:

jlcustomz 08-09-2016 05:30 PM

Decided to go with actual vette bumper components. Picked up a slightly damaged upper cover for $60 bucks from recycler today.
http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/...ps9sm3wec4.jpg
http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/...pspinxwt94.jpg

jlcustomz 09-19-2016 12:04 AM

Got part of a 2016 vette upper bumper actually fit to my 83 el camino. Making a steel frame on my existing metal lower bumper to attach fiberglass to.

Will cut down & reshape the bedcover to resemble a vette spoiler from the rear. Thinking a smoothed version of the wickerbill style.
http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/...ps2zrtiiot.jpg
http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/...psk3afxbnm.jpg

jlcustomz 10-03-2016 04:12 AM

Roughly finished on making & shaping a rear bumper, still need to fine tune shapes. I combined standard width upper bumper cover with the wider z-06 lower grilles and had to curve the outsides in some to better match the vehicle shape, so a standard lower bumper wouldn't have fit anywayhttp://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/...pstxaludju.jpg.

reason222 02-21-2017 06:15 PM

the end result for the back looks MUCH better than the original concept. What does it look like from the side as finished? one of the picks makes it look like the rear end sticks out from the body at the bumper. I'm guessing you found a way to smooth that out.

jlcustomz 04-22-2017 03:20 PM

Sadly haven't had time to work on since last fall. The vette bumper doesn't stick out past the body like it appears in the driver's side rear pic. The upper body does stick out a little past the bumper right now though.
Plans are to turn the upper bumper into a functional tailgate, extend hand made steel ground effects to line up , delete the sword blades & totally reshape the aluminum cover sides & rear to blend with the vette shape.
Also still have rear quarter damage to fix from getting cut off in traffic, which started the whole front & rear re-do project.
Here's the pass side view currently.
http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/...psi5m8ghoj.jpg

Here's the current front view.
http://i1094.photobucket.com/albums/...psh5wcfpqz.jpg

Not for everyone. but it does get positive attention in person.

jlcustomz 05-06-2017 01:34 PM

Hey , made it on the ugly car pictures website.
http://uglycarpictures.com/trust-me-...-will-love-it/
Some people got nothing better do than take in progress pics of mine & send them out to these worthless little sites.

rdanzel 05-18-2017 02:56 AM

Good job on transforming that El Camino into a cool car. I like the rear-end style.

jlcustomz 03-17-2018 09:11 PM

finally getting back to work on project. Started wide body on pass side in all steel. Corner of vette bumpers will be all steel, no sideview seams. Reshaping the sides of bed with 69 charger upper quarters. cut off perimeter of bedcover to drop between new side metal & fiberglass vette spoiler that I'll fabricate.
Bedcover top was originally designed to look similar to c-6 rear deck shapes, & lines look close to c-7 bumper.
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4799/...eed014b2_k.jpg20180311_193714 by joe leleux, on Flickr
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4798/...f12b8832_k.jpg20180311_193847 by joe leleux, on Flickr
https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4772/...afe310f5_k.jpg20180311_182608 by joe leleux, on Flickr


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