View Poll Results: Should I extend the look of the rear back up lights.
Yes - Extend the back up lights using the silver paint.
1
4.17%
No - Leave it the way it is.
23
95.83%
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6th Gen ('00-'05): Slight Mod for the Rear Bumper
#1
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Mentor, Ohio
Posts: 12,156
Slight Mod for the Rear Bumper
As some may have noticed, my Monte is in the body shop getting some work done. My body guy had an idea I thought was neat and I have never seen a Monte due (at least not yet).
I am on the fence. Part of me says "yeah, that would give a more complete look" and the other part says, "not so much". I will see him Monday after work and he said he can mock up a better visual. Mondya I will have to make the FINAL decision.
On the rear bumper, where the back up lights are, it is indented or grooved in a way that the lights look like they could have been "extended". His thought is to carry that out with the same silver seen in the ground fx.
Doc Brown moment: Please excuse the crudity of this model. I used a simple editor to do it, but shows a little what I'm talking about. Look at the rear back up lights on the bumper (again excuse the crappy image work by yours truly)....
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I am on the fence. Part of me says "yeah, that would give a more complete look" and the other part says, "not so much". I will see him Monday after work and he said he can mock up a better visual. Mondya I will have to make the FINAL decision.
On the rear bumper, where the back up lights are, it is indented or grooved in a way that the lights look like they could have been "extended". His thought is to carry that out with the same silver seen in the ground fx.
Doc Brown moment: Please excuse the crudity of this model. I used a simple editor to do it, but shows a little what I'm talking about. Look at the rear back up lights on the bumper (again excuse the crappy image work by yours truly)....
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Last edited by The_Maniac; 07-07-2012 at 12:27 AM.
#4
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Mentor, Ohio
Posts: 12,156
I thought about that idea, but I like the blacked out reverse lights on a black car.... Not really feelin' the blue-ed lights on a blue car....
#7
Never knew you had that vette badge on the back! Looks awesome
#8
50th corvette emblem..
#9
I'm not feeling the silver paint either. Get a 2006/7 rear bumper. It's got the reverse lights right up against the license plate. The bumper isn't exactly the same as the 6th gen bumper. But I think you could make it work.