Product install - Marquez billet tail lights

[Larry Callahan]

Recently I installed a set of Marquez Design billet tail lights in my '68 Camaro. First off I need to tell everyone how cool these look. The workmanship is top notch and it's a great product. At the same time I also installed the Spaghetti Engineering sequential tail lights but that's another story. The Marquez tail lights can be just as easily installed with the stock lights.



I chose the RS version of the lights despite my car not being an RS. I really like the all red version and decided to add some stock RS reverse lights down the road.




The first thing you will need to do it remove your old housings and unplug the old wires.



Once the housings are out you should clean up your tail panel around them. On my Camaro there was some old gasket material left behind on the passenger side and I found something I wasn't aware of on the driver side. The last person to work on the car didn't install a seal under the housing. Over time the old stock housing wore it's way through the paint. It's a good thing the car is being re-painted.



Below are the lights ready for assembly. It's really is as simple as removing a few screws and re-installing them on the new housings.









Here is some of the supplied hardware that Marquez Design ships with the lights. No cheesy stuff here.




I did run into a little snag during the install. Many years ago I was rear ended and the local Chevy dealer did a terrible job putting it back together. Things were so misaligned I had to pull out a little pencil grinder and grind one of the holes into an oval to allow the lights to fit. See the lower left stud prior to grinding.





There it is. They look great, seal well and I just love the look.






For more information or to get yourself a set visit http://www.marquezdesign.com or order yourself a set from one of several dealers seen on the right side of this forum.