Hey Chad & Jolene, just another idea in amongst all the others…..the bumper overriders(that’s what we call them in Australia)could be modified via a vertical section removed from the centre, then make a light box to suit and mount it internally with an epoxy. For the lens which would have to be removable for globe replacement if necessary, make a mould out of plasticine in the correct contour a touch oversized so you can trim too fit. Pour your lenses using 2 part epoxy resin either in clear with coloured globes in mind or add a red pigment to get the desired colour, use LED globes to minimise heat and maximise luminosity. I think what your doing with the cones is good, as I said just another spin on it….I hope I explained this idea well enough, I can see the vertical lights in the overriders in my mind and they are definitely custom! Love the videos, thank you 🙏 all the best from Australia 🇦🇺 PeterB.
Something very similar to Chad Chrome is what I used to use when I was a kid. It's been so long ago I wouldn't dare say it's the same thing but it rolled off kind of like weather stripping for a camper shell on a truck. We're going back to the day seventies early '80s here but I was a kid I was tearing apart or first year Chevy 2 Nova. I think has 12 maybe 10 years old. Anyway I did for you replace those red lenses with Amber or halogen or some other kind of light and you can use them up on front hi for driving lights or turn signal lights. Keep on creating.
I've never seen an entire car built with a grinder I think the car looked better before he started customizing it, you can customize something too much, congratulations you win the grinder award
I don't think that's going to be a good idea, putting the tail lights on the bumper. You're going to end up replacing them often. And if they stick out any it's going to visually add to the length of the rear end in my opinion. The frenched in tail lights would be the way to go and I believe that was Chad's original plan for the tail lights.
I think you did a great job of getting those to fit the bumper. I would prefer something frenched in between the trunk and fender that would make the chrome on the bumper go on clean and neat. Look forward to seeing how you resolve this.
Great looking lights , yes replace horns with lights . Don't know about the chrome until I see it. I would tack weld the lights on like your thinking, then bad chad chrome to them then maybe around the lights , maybe bare metal the lights. Can't wait till tomorrow to see what you and Jolene decided. It's your car and your vision as you say some will like it some wont . Good luck and good health to the both of you.
Your lights mounted on the bumper is a creative approach...You both have the vision and adapt it to make it work...Your creative process. Thanks for sharing.
Yes the tail lights are great bad ass sir you picked the best lights great fabrication you always do the best vidios to cut them and fabricate them to look so amazing .you and joline are the best .in fabrication
Put bracket inside with welded stud to bolt from behind. Install it over the Bad Chad chrome on bumper. Send out the two light fixtures to get chromed. Don’t even want to think about turn signal light. WOW brain just exploded. 🤯🤯🤯 I’ll just sit here and watch, you do what you want and I’ll like it. Thanks for sharing.
Put the tail lights on the back fenders, then you solve the chroming situation . The first time someone tapes the back of the car, there go your taillights.
Your very talented. I would think about the spray chrome systems they sell now. My buddy bought one for his shop. It’s awesome. It’s paint. You can chrome anything you want. Wood glass plastic and metal.
Weld the light on then get the Bumper actually Chromed ,You have saved a ton by using what you have, so splurge a little and get it really chromed . ??? If you do the Bad Chad Flexible Chrome each end cut against the light will be at a different angle and be very difficult to fit it nicely .Looking good so far.. Good Luck ...
I like the front grille, very good choice. 😎👍 The rear lights look good on the bumper but it doesn't seem like a great idea to me... Perhaps it was better to mount them a little higher in a less vulnerable area, such as eg. between the trunk and the fender. It would also be easier to apply chrome on the bumper.
That plastic chrome only lasts a year or two and then turns grey. It's cheap and nasty. Chrome wrap is better as long as you get high quality stretchy stuff.
That front grille is off of a 48/49 Oldsmobile, that was the first convertible my parents ever bought and we moved from Texas to California in it back in 1949.
Okay that's neat for auxiliary lights on the bumper but if you got one that would so we say somewhat French into the body and follow the lines of the body as it sloped up. Where if it did protrude from the body it would only be very minimal. I don't know where you going to put your license plate at I'm assuming in the middle of the trunk unless you put your spare tire there. But if you could put a license plate auxiliary third light there at least. I've got old cars that sit lower to the ground and people just don't see the light road hypnosis whatever the reason. Function has to be in there as well as style. All my opinions. But it does give it that European 30s flare of a more expensive car than a Chevy in the late 40s. Enjoying the episode thus far
Drill out the bumper holes as large as you can get them.then insert the holder and Reflector from the rear [if it'll go] ...tack tack .A couple of small threaded brackets and a backplate for the bulb holder. Possibly a thin rubber gasket to seal the backplate. You could further reduce the size of the body of the shade but keep the back of it flush.👍
Rear taillights not really working for me Chad sorry . I’d wait until you get the proper rear fenders then decide on tail lights . 👍 maybe work on something else in the meantime ?
Hey Bad Chad! I think your going to have issues with the tail lights on the bumper Bud because they're going to stick out further then the bumper guards did there No protection of the lenses and your not going to replace those to easy if the bust? you have them cut down try them on the rear center of the fender and see what they look like cut down on that area better situation and chroming the bumper will be a breeze!🤔 Good luck guys like the content and videos Great job Jolene!😉👍📹✔️💯👋👋👋
Just wondering Chad and Jolene Maybe if you looked at the way you got your lights maybe you can pull the bumper closer to the body and leave that bumper splash pan off and put the bumper up next to the body and hug it up next to it but it still looks pretty good what I could see but you're the man thought I'd throw that in there might help you on the tail light situation too love your work love how you do things with you both as a great team
Tack a plate on the inside of the cut tail light housing with a square hole in it for a carriage bolt that will hold it on since you can take the lenses off. BTW you could mount the ink pen on the edge of the tape parallel to the floor at you 2" height. Put the cone on the floor next to it and rotate the cone on the floor and the pen will leave a line on the edge of the cone, like a surface plate marking a part's height. It will leave a perfect line on your cone.
your getting it the hard way but it will be fine i was a pipe fiter for years it is easy to do a lay out if its something you do all the time i like the look and i wouldnt change a thing thanks for the show
Great looking tail lights, matches the new long sweeping fenders...Maybe, place the new tail lights in the original placement, out of danger of being crushed by just backing out... : )
If you work from a table you will make it easier for yourself to achieve a better result. You will also save your knees, very important as you get older.
The lights would look better sitting on those large and empty panels, showcasing some clean fabrication skill. It would also be nice to see a build that doesn't use chrome strips from Dollar Tree. Grey painted bumpers and trim would look much higher quality and give it a modern restomod look. The whole point of chrome is to admire the elegant curves of the bumper, which you can't do with adhesive blobs stuck on; all you see is economically-priced Chinese goods in a row.
how are the brackets fitted to the frame? You might weld the brackets to the bumper. aiming for that bold thats under an angle. and this leaves You also a hole to mount the bulb fitting and wires. and then bolt back the complete bumper and welded on brackets as one back to the frame.
Loving the idea of the rear lights in the bumper, does the lights need to be chromed or can they be put in paint to suit colour scheme you have in mind? it would also accent the chrome on the bumper in my opinion. Loving the build by the way keep up the good work
I would like to see the 59 caddy tail lights in the fender but as you say it's what you like. I'm learning what and not what todo thanks and God bless and keep up the good work
I love your work Chad! but not a big fan of the Madonna cone bra taillights on the bumper. Round tailights would compliment more the shape of the car, or even some "subtile" tail fins on the rear fenders Also I would paint black all the chrome trims and give the car a nice candy color.
Hi Chad and Jolene , i think they look better over the over rider holes,. but i also think you had better choices to modifying tail lights .because i feel if someone bumped the back of it accidentally it would bust all the lights, and all the hard beautiful work you have done would be destroyed
This is the second car you have put tail lights at bumper area! Will get broken easily and so low people wouldn’t be able to see the tail lights as easily! Safety higher up! You have a lot of room on back to mount some.
Yes rubbing them won't get you a Genie or give you the prize your wishing for but you do make me laugh Chad . Thank you ! The hard bullet shape lights remind me of a well I'll not go there but it's a idea you can use . You got them use them or not it's up to you . Nothing is written in stone . Thumbs up 👍 Jolene and Chad!
Love your coupe..makeing it your own way...just like art..Im building a hot rod Harley panhead..have some different taillights also..to chose. How about 2 Harley "tombstone" from the late 40s and 50s? looks nice👌 some of them are chrome plated and some black. Could even put a licence plate on it. has even seen chromed fishtails at the end of exhaust..so cool..
I know what you should do with the chrome. Leave it rolled up in the box.
You really rubbing the booby lights😅
All the work done fabricating. Why not spend the money to have the bumper professionally chromed?
I agree. That stuff is cheesy
Hey Chad & Jolene, just another idea in amongst all the others…..the bumper overriders(that’s what we call them in Australia)could be modified via a vertical section removed from the centre, then make a light box to suit and mount it internally with an epoxy. For the lens which would have to be removable for globe replacement if necessary, make a mould out of plasticine in the correct contour a touch oversized so you can trim too fit. Pour your lenses using 2 part epoxy resin either in clear with coloured globes in mind or add a red pigment to get the desired colour, use LED globes to minimise heat and maximise luminosity. I think what your doing with the cones is good, as I said just another spin on it….I hope I explained this idea well enough, I can see the vertical lights in the overriders in my mind and they are definitely custom! Love the videos, thank you 🙏 all the best from Australia 🇦🇺 PeterB.
Something very similar to Chad Chrome is what I used to use when I was a kid. It's been so long ago I wouldn't dare say it's the same thing but it rolled off kind of like weather stripping for a camper shell on a truck. We're going back to the day seventies early '80s here but I was a kid I was tearing apart or first year Chevy 2 Nova. I think has 12 maybe 10 years old. Anyway I did for you replace those red lenses with Amber or halogen or some other kind of light and you can use them up on front hi for driving lights or turn signal lights. Keep on creating.
Man what great lines on that car, one of my (many) favorites they have done. Amazing skill.
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@@donaldhenak4585 Chad & Jolene
I hope nobody bumps the rear bumper, even lightly because it will be " Goodbye Lights" Chad. Jolene thanks for videoing!
I've never seen an entire car built with a grinder I think the car looked better before he started customizing it, you can customize something too much, congratulations you win the grinder award
This was a perfect job to use your contour gauge Chad.
Chad, you’re an artist in so many areas! Very happy I found you (and Queen Jolene).
I don't think that's going to be a good idea, putting the tail lights on the bumper. You're going to end up replacing them often. And if they stick out any it's going to visually add to the length of the rear end in my opinion. The frenched in tail lights would be the way to go and I believe that was Chad's original plan for the tail lights.
Chad doesnt drive any of these vehicles anyway, Im with you , I would not put thing where they would constantly get damaged
Totally agree with that.
This is lawn art and not intended to drive.
Dare to be different... you do you and Chad will do Chad
@@heavyballs8458 I agree
I think you did a great job of getting those to fit the bumper. I would prefer something frenched in between the trunk and fender that would make the chrome on the bumper go on clean and neat. Look forward to seeing how you resolve this.
Please... No more stick on plastic chrome.
Love it when Chad is thinking while talking. A genius at work. Thank you, take care and peace out.
Man, I love your method!!! Artist to artist.
Love the way your mind works , love your work ethics. Keep on keeping on Bro.
Looks unbelievable!!!!
just found your channel Chad love what you do and love your vision you have and amazing talent thanks for sharing
Chad I have supported you and the queen since day. Lights are not bummer guards, doesn't makesense., besides it look dump.
That was a good show ! Down too heart and enjoyable.!;-) From Tennessee
The rear lights he has chosen would look great frenched in.
Yes, I absolutely agree and I think that's what he said he was going to do originally.
I like the tail lights.
Dude's got a plan. That's a good thing.
Great looking lights , yes replace horns with lights . Don't know about the chrome until I see it. I would tack weld the lights on like your thinking, then bad chad chrome to them then maybe around the lights , maybe bare metal the lights. Can't wait till tomorrow to see what you and Jolene decided. It's your car and your vision as you say some will like it some wont . Good luck and good health to the both of you.
Your lights mounted on the bumper is a creative approach...You both have the vision and adapt it to make it work...Your creative process. Thanks for sharing.
Yes the tail lights are great bad ass sir you picked the best lights great fabrication you always do the best vidios to cut them and fabricate them to look so amazing .you and joline are the best .in fabrication
please dont use that flexible
chrome !!!!!
when i scribe in parts i use a compas and sharp soft pencil or fine sharpie and keep compas at the correct orientation car is looking good
I like the lights on the bumper definitely goes with the style of the car. I would leave the bumper guards and put the lights beside them
Karmann Ghia tail lights and the rings you showed first. Great looking ride.
Continental Kit would be a great touch
Excellent job shaping that tailight to the bumper...looks dang good 👍 see ya guys tomorrow
It was lookin really great till u decided to put the lights on the bumper, that looks silly as hell
Put bracket inside with welded stud to bolt from behind. Install it over the Bad Chad chrome on bumper. Send out the two light fixtures to get chromed.
Don’t even want to think about turn signal light. WOW brain just exploded. 🤯🤯🤯
I’ll just sit here and watch, you do what you want and I’ll like it.
Thanks for sharing.
Put the tail lights on the back fenders, then you solve the chroming situation . The first time someone tapes the back of the car, there go your taillights.
Epic build guys!
Your very talented. I would think about the spray chrome systems they sell now. My buddy bought one for his shop. It’s awesome. It’s paint. You can chrome anything you want. Wood glass plastic and metal.
Fina says “ I donno Chadie !”
Weld the light on then get the Bumper actually Chromed ,You have saved a ton by using what you have, so splurge a little and get it really chromed . ??? If you do the Bad Chad Flexible Chrome each end cut against the light will be at a different angle and be very difficult to fit it nicely .Looking good so far.. Good Luck ...
I like the front grille, very good choice. 😎👍
The rear lights look good on the bumper but it doesn't seem like a great idea to me...
Perhaps it was better to mount them a little higher in a less vulnerable area, such as eg. between the trunk and the fender. It would also be easier to apply chrome on the bumper.
That plastic chrome only lasts a year or two and then turns grey. It's cheap and nasty. Chrome wrap is better as long as you get high quality stretchy stuff.
I love the idea 💡 of putting the lights in the bumper i think ill try it on a ford truck to get rid of the big turnsignal on the fender
Another great video thanks guys
That front grille is off of a 48/49 Oldsmobile, that was the first convertible my parents ever bought and we moved from Texas to California in it back in 1949.
I don't like the lights on the Bumper what part of Bumper are you missing, the first thing to get broke is the Tailight, put them up on the Body!
It's called a bumper overider in the UK
This k the lights in da bumper is wat customizing is all about...a unique idea..
Think about painting the bumper and the lights.....would look nice..love you guys
Chad what ever light you use will be good as your vision seems to work every time
Great custom touches on this car!
Use whatever you got .done great .very inventive
We will see what chad x Jolene come up with 👍👍👍👍🇬🇧
Okay that's neat for auxiliary lights on the bumper but if you got one that would so we say somewhat French into the body and follow the lines of the body as it sloped up. Where if it did protrude from the body it would only be very minimal. I don't know where you going to put your license plate at I'm assuming in the middle of the trunk unless you put your spare tire there. But if you could put a license plate auxiliary third light there at least. I've got old cars that sit lower to the ground and people just don't see the light road hypnosis whatever the reason. Function has to be in there as well as style. All my opinions. But it does give it that European 30s flare of a more expensive car than a Chevy in the late 40s. Enjoying the episode thus far
Thinking Frenching in the Cadillac taillights between quarter panel and trunk lid would look good and less chance of taillights getting damaged.
Drill out the bumper holes as large as you can get them.then insert the holder and Reflector from the rear [if it'll go] ...tack tack .A couple of small threaded brackets and a backplate for the bulb holder. Possibly a thin rubber gasket to seal the backplate.
You could further reduce the size of the body of the shade but keep the back of it flush.👍
Rear taillights not really working for me Chad sorry . I’d wait until you get the proper rear fenders then decide on tail lights . 👍 maybe work on something else in the meantime ?
Hey Buddy, I've been missing the live chats. Been on the road doing ISM audits.
@@butziporsche8646 hi Butzi glad your here and thanks for comments . Hope all is well 👍
@@butziporsche8646 catch up on my channel 👍
Hey Bad Chad! I think your going to have issues with the tail lights on the bumper Bud because they're going to stick out further then the bumper guards did there No protection of the lenses and your not going to replace those to easy if the bust? you have them cut down try them on the rear center of the fender and see what they look like cut down on that area better situation and chroming the bumper will be a breeze!🤔 Good luck guys like the content and videos Great job Jolene!😉👍📹✔️💯👋👋👋
Just wondering Chad and Jolene Maybe if you looked at the way you got your lights maybe you can pull the bumper closer to the body and leave that bumper splash pan off and put the bumper up next to the body and hug it up next to it but it still looks pretty good what I could see but you're the man thought I'd throw that in there might help you on the tail light situation too love your work love how you do things with you both as a great team
Tack a plate on the inside of the cut tail light housing with a square hole in it for a carriage bolt that will hold it on since you can take the lenses off.
BTW you could mount the ink pen on the edge of the tape parallel to the floor at you 2" height. Put the cone on the floor next to it and rotate the cone on the floor and the pen will leave a line on the edge of the cone, like a surface plate marking a part's height. It will leave a perfect line on your cone.
Brains, balls and skill. Confidence is high. 🏆👍
Custom rear dagwood taillights 👍
YES! Outside the bumperettes!
your getting it the hard way but it will be fine i was a pipe fiter for years it is easy to do a lay out if its something you do all the time i like the look and i wouldnt change a thing thanks for the show
Just my opinion, I think the stick on chrome strips cheapen the look of the car. Do they make some kind of powder coating that looks close to chrome?
Adhesive backed chrome is not a good idea for this car. It has worked on others I'll admit but please not this one IMO
Awesome, Thanks
Looking forward to how you solve this issue. You have the vision Chad, you just have to get it on the car.
Lights on the bumper look good as long as no one hits them . 🤔🤠
They look cool!
the frenched caddy lights would look a lot better
thats the way i would have went to
Instead of the chrome on the bumper I think if you metal finished the bumper it would look better and blend with the rest of the car
I like that trunk lever/ latch
Use an hallow tube like the ones used for ceiling fans with the adjustable bracket to hold the new lamps
Put tail light. Up on fender not on bumper if they get hit you may not find more to replace them .
the car will never run and Drive so IF it gets hit it will be with the mower as it's only a big attractive lawn ornament.
I agree with everyone else, no tacky chrome and French taillights.
Great looking tail lights, matches the new long sweeping fenders...Maybe, place the new tail lights in the original placement, out of danger of being crushed by just backing out... : )
I liked the 30 models that you would insert into the rear panel. The little round ones.
I have been watching ur Chanel but I'm a new subscriber
If you work from a table you will make it easier for yourself to achieve a better result. You will also save your knees, very important as you get older.
The lights would look better sitting on those large and empty panels, showcasing some clean fabrication skill. It would also be nice to see a build that doesn't use chrome strips from Dollar Tree. Grey painted bumpers and trim would look much higher quality and give it a modern restomod look.
The whole point of chrome is to admire the elegant curves of the bumper, which you can't do with adhesive blobs stuck on; all you see is economically-priced Chinese goods in a row.
There is a thing called chrome paint. If it don't look good then use the flexible then . Try it see how it looks first ? Thumbs-up Jolene and Chad 👍
I like the 40 tiller light it would look good
how are the brackets fitted to the frame? You might weld the brackets to the bumper. aiming for that bold thats under an angle.
and this leaves You also a hole to mount the bulb fitting and wires.
and then bolt back the complete bumper and welded on brackets as one back to the frame.
I have been known to scribe many dissimilar items. You can lay the marker on the flat surface and get a perfect line.
Loving the idea of the rear lights in the bumper, does the lights need to be chromed or can they be put in paint to suit colour scheme you have in mind? it would also accent the chrome on the bumper in my opinion. Loving the build by the way keep up the good work
These will look good with a continental kit way down low . 🎥 nice camera work.
I personally Liked the set he had new in the boxes, just my opinion of course, we all have our own tastes, which is what make things interesting.
Keep up the hard work you two
I would like to see the 59 caddy tail lights in the fender but as you say it's what you like. I'm learning what and not what todo thanks and God bless and keep up the good work
I have no doubt you'll work it out chad It's called Custom and you can do it. Keep the faith.🤙
You can weld brace across inside housing with a hole to put a bolt thru and bolt to bumper
Let’s give away a hat!
I love your work Chad!
but not a big fan of the Madonna cone bra taillights on the bumper.
Round tailights would compliment more the shape of the car, or even some "subtile" tail fins on the rear fenders
Also I would paint black all the chrome trims and give the car a nice candy color.
Hi Chad and Jolene. I agree with Pete Tap's idea. Keep up your good work Chad.
Flat LED glued to the inside of the red could do the trick!
Hi Chad and Jolene , i think they look better over the over rider holes,. but i also think you had better choices to modifying tail lights .because i feel if someone bumped the back of it accidentally it would bust all the lights, and all the hard beautiful work you have done would be destroyed
This is the second car you have put tail lights at bumper area! Will get broken easily and so low people wouldn’t be able to see the tail lights as easily! Safety higher up! You have a lot of room on back to mount some.
I assume you’ll wire up the lights before tacking etc 😊😎👍
Nice fit Chad!
Yes rubbing them won't get you a Genie or give you the prize your wishing for but you do make me laugh Chad . Thank you !
The hard bullet shape lights remind me of a well I'll not go there but it's a idea you can use . You got them use them or not it's up to you . Nothing is written in stone . Thumbs up 👍 Jolene and Chad!
Chad : u r real good what u do .. just go for it .. am watching everyday so i like it keep it up
I don't know if it works on bumpers but they make chrome wrap for cars, don't think it cost to much ,, you do your thing man it looks great 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍
Love your coupe..makeing it your own way...just like art..Im building a hot rod Harley panhead..have some different taillights also..to chose.
How about 2 Harley "tombstone" from the late 40s and 50s? looks nice👌 some of them are chrome plated and some black.
Could even put a licence plate on it.
has even seen chromed fishtails at the end of exhaust..so cool..
Hmmm, nobody has a combo bumper guard/ brake lite .
nice job