Custom trunk treatment.

[Randy Marsh]

As I dive deeper into this project I like to check out pictures of roads traveled. I really like what this guy did cleaning up the deck lid. Deleting the filler panel, adding the Plymouth lettering, and removing the reverse lights looks great. However I can't imagine not having reverse lights. Did he relocate them and I'm just not seeing it? Any ideas where to put them?

 

[Kern Dog]

What if the car is stock?
What year were reverse/back-up lights first mandatory?

 

[Randy Marsh]

What if the car is stock?
What year were reverse/back-up lights first mandatory?

It's a 66. My 66 has a filler plate with integrated reverse lights. I think Belvedere 1, 2, and satellites all had reverse lights. Really clean look otherwise.

 

[Photon440]

I found a couple other Belvedere I cars with clean trunk lids...

 

[turbine68rt]

65 they could be deleted but I think 66 was mandatory.

 

[BeepBeepRR]

Could those be lightweight fiberglass trunk lids?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/66-Plymouth-Satellite-Belvedere-SHOWCARS-Fiberglass-Trunk-Lid-/113707219999

 

[Badvert65]

With all this new LED light technology around today, you could likely find a small Led Light strip and mount it to the bottom edge or sides of the license plate (frame). It would be discrete and functional. I don't have reverse lights on my 65 Belvedere I and don't really miss them.

 

[Randy Marsh]

With all this new LED light technology around today, you could likely find a small Led Light strip and mount it to the bottom edge or sides of the license plate (frame). It would be discrete and functional. I don't have reverse lights on my 65 Belvedere I and don't really miss them.

Thanks, I like that idea. I forgot about strip lighting. I live in the woods and have to back down the driveway in pitch black, and avoid a storm ditch. Every now and then a friend or UPS driver ends up with one wheel in the air. My mother in law stopped trying and makes me back her out.

I agree with you other guys that those are probably fiberglass lids. Simple enough to do with steel though.

 

[gkent]

I've thought of putting a '68 rear bumper on my 69 RR for exactly that purpose - clean up the rear

 

[69a100]

Personally? I like the tail panel look better, but that's just me!

 

[VFilms]

I wanted to keep my original pristine lid stock, so I bought an extra lid and welded up the reverse light openings and bolt holes for the trim panel. If I decide to put it on the car I plan to install 69 RR backup lights in the bumper on either side of the license plate, like on the RR.