Re: Clear Lights

["Mark Madison" <markie@proaxis.com>]

Uhm.. that's not what he meant..
the actual color isn't paint.. its manufactured as a colored plastic.
there'll be no sanding the color off here.

What he DID mean was that it would be nice to get the actual
texture to the light that is molded in off and make it have a shiny
appearance.

=)


-----Original Message-----
From: Jody Bailey <scirocco8v@home.com>
To: Scirocco List <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Date: Monday, February 15, 1999 5:12 PM
Subject: Re: Clear Lights


>Is the paint just on the outside?  If so, why couldn't you just
>sandblast it off?  Same goes for if it is in the inside I guess?  Just a
>thought.
>
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>I also agree with the second part.
>
>
>"Jim Buck/BahnBurners!" wrote:
>>
>> I've thought about "candying" a set of MK2 taillights by carefully
sanding off
>> the ridges molded in to them then buffing them out clear.  I know it's
doable
>> and would look awesome.
>>
>> jim
>>
>> Riley McDowall wrote:
>>
>> > At 6:32 pm -0700 14/2/99, Owen wrote:
>> > >There are clear signals made in Germany for the roc, but no clear
rears.
>> > >However, they apparently can be custom made, which would be cool.
There is
>> > >a guy on the Corrado list having a set of clear rear tail lights made
up
>> > >right now.  Don't ask me how they do it though.
>> >
>> > I would imagine you need either the original tooling or some pretty
good
>> > copies of it.  Plus all the injection-molding equipment, etc, which is
I
>> > guess why there's only one company in the world making S2 clear turn
>> > signals :)
>> >
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