Tom would you send me the scan. I would like to look them over. I lookedat
them at Boise but would like another look-see. Are they too large towork
with a Bambi II. My tail lights are in bad shape and have looked for
replacements. I found one but have not found another. I stopped atevery RV
store on the way home from Boise. (it seemed like it anyway) :-)

hspivey@netdoor.com

Herb Spivey
1964 Bambi II
1964 Bambi II
 

-----Original Message-----
From: TomH. <how8553911@earthlink.net>
To: vintage@airstream.net<vintage@airstream.net>
Date: Thursday, February 25, 1999 6:56 PM
Subject: Re: [VAC] 1953 tail lights
 

>Don,
>
>Bill is correct in that I replaced an ugly, and difficult to see exceptat
night,
>set of big red plastic bathtub type of taillights with a set of 4"diameter
>Signal-Stat lights with polished stainless steel trim rings. Thesenew
lights
>look much sleeker and someone behind me can now actually see my turn
signals
>which is always a good thing.
>
>First the good news, the lights I purchased were from a SpecialtyTruck
Chrome
>and Electronics Shop on the first OH exit coming from IN into OH onI-70
east
>bound. I actually have the business card with telephone number andaddress
at
>work and can retrieve it tomorrow if anyone is interested. I can not
recall the
>exact price but remember thinking that it was rather reasonable ($40is a
wild
>guess but that could have been for each although I think it was forthe
pair).
>They also had 5" and 6" versions which were very slick and temptingbut the
4"
>looked pretty good and I got scared off of cutting into the coachfor the
larger
>diameter although in retrospect the 5" would also have looked quitenice.
>
>Now the bad news is that the installation require cutting a four inchhole
into
>the trailer for each tail light. I do not like cutting into the coachbut
>realized that I had to for this. I also "covered up", the four mounting
screw
>holes from the plastic bathtubs by placing rivets in the wholes and
polishing
>over them.
>
>Overall the job came out looking pretty sharp and I sent Bambi Billscanned
>photos of the finished lights. If one did not know better they mightthink
that
>these lights were original because they certainly go well with thecoach.
>
>I also remade part of my license plate holder out of stainless steel(which
I
>polished to a mirror) while sending out the pot metal light mounting
fixture
>section for chrome plating. Both parts mate together well and lookpretty
good.
>These items were also shown in the scans.
>
>Do any of our subscribers have a means for accepting a scan of 980kBytes?
When
>I reduce the size the picture down I lose a lot of the detail (i.e.,it
isn't so
>shiny!). Any suggestions?
>
>Let me know if there is further interest in getting the telephonenumber
and shop
>name for the lights.
>
>Tom Howarth, #6490
>'53 Airstream Flying Cloud
>
>