View Poll Results: What taillights do you like best?
Plain original red lens
7
20.59%
Plain with Ford Script
9
26.47%
Plain with blue dot
3
8.82%
Plain Ford Script with blue dot
10
29.41%
Any other modified taillight
5
14.71%
Voters: 34. You may not vote on this poll
53-56 Taillights
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I like the script Ford on the tail lights, but I don't like it next to the block letters on the 53-56 tailgate. I like blue dots a lot. I have the block Ford letters with a blue dot (but that wasn't part of the poll).
There have been some very nice custom tail lights done by some on here as well, but I am partial to the Ford shield style on my truck. They are just distinctive to our effies.
There have been some very nice custom tail lights done by some on here as well, but I am partial to the Ford shield style on my truck. They are just distinctive to our effies.
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From: Somewhere in da corn,Iowa
i believe the 53 and 54..not sure about the 55...tail-lights were different..the ones I took off my truck originally were round and nothing like the "shield style" I got from Mid-fifty..with blue dots and Ford Script
However...I had to put them together..like drill the holes for the script and blue dots. they sent a little letter with it saying they were no longer allowed to sell/ship them complete/assembled. Has anyone else heard anything like this?
However...I had to put them together..like drill the holes for the script and blue dots. they sent a little letter with it saying they were no longer allowed to sell/ship them complete/assembled. Has anyone else heard anything like this?
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From: Valley Center, CA
I like the shield with the script and the blue dot! 
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From: Durham NC
personally I am not at all fond of the OEM taillights, IMHO they look like something you'd put on a trailer. In a bolted on taillight I'd prefer a round "bullet style" housing with a short stem, like a scaled down version of a 30's headlight. I also like the stealthy narrow LED strip lights that go just under the tailgate that have the "running" turn indicators and center brake area. On of the best looking setups I have seen used the rear bumper from a mid 80's el Camino or Malibu SW that has the sorta 1/2 moon taillights built in on each side and the recessed license plate mount in the center. Tucked in tight and painted body color it looked like it originally came there. There was a deluxe version that had a rubber rub strip just above the tallights as well as a plain one.
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From: East Liberty, OH
Originally Posted by AXracer
I also like the stealthy narrow LED strip lights that go just under the tailgate that have the "running" turn indicators and center brake area.
http://www.pros-pick.com/hotlitez.html
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Originally Posted by AXracer
personally I am not at all fond of the OEM taillights, IMHO they look like something you'd put on a trailer. In a bolted on taillight I'd prefer a round "bullet style" housing with a short stem, like a scaled down version of a 30's headlight. I also like the stealthy narrow LED strip lights that go just under the tailgate that have the "running" turn indicators and center brake area. On of the best looking setups I have seen used the rear bumper from a mid 80's el Camino or Malibu SW that has the sorta 1/2 moon taillights built in on each side and the recessed license plate mount in the center. Tucked in tight and painted body color it looked like it originally came there. There was a deluxe version that had a rubber rub strip just above the tallights as well as a plain one.
I always thought that would look good on some custom truck. LOL
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From: Rural Southern Colorado
I guess I just have to be different. 
I like the looks of the old Ford script shields on the earlier Effies but not for my '56. I like the block letters on mine.
One in every crowd, eh?
I like the looks of the old Ford script shields on the earlier Effies but not for my '56. I like the block letters on mine.One in every crowd, eh?
I love the freedom of customs, that's what makes it truly yours!! you get to personalize them.