Re: Tail light louvers PING: Dwight

"WindsorFox<SS>" <darkshado666@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
news:fvts92$hhc$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 

> elaich wrote:
>> Joe <party@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in news:Xns9A97A511B4D7nospamforme@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> 216.77.188.18:
>> 
>>> Where do you come up with this crap?
>> 
>> The original louvers were actual metal louvers that covered the
>> entire rear lighting from side to side. The ones referred to on ebay
>> were molded into the lens assembly, so you do not get the same effect
>> as the metal louvers. 
>> 
> 
>     I've never seen a set with metal louvers that screw or stick over 
> the plastic lens. Every pair that I've ever seen (and looked at close 
> enough to notice) was molded into the plastic lens and then painted
> the color of the car in the same way that the lines between the
> segments on the LX lenses are painted black. I note this as I hold in
> my hands the original OEM lenses off of a 90 GT and from my 89 LX
> along with a new OEM replacement set for my LX. The post you quoted is
> just more of that troll's petty bull**** that he posts in reply to any
> post I make even if he's wrong, like now.
> 
>    I have a representative photo showing said detail if you would like
> to see it. If you have a photo of one with separate louvers I'd like
> to see it. I'm sure it's possible the early GTs from 87 and 88 could
> have been different.
> 
>    Perhaps Dwight will be so kind as to tell us how the lenses are
>    made 
> on CFrog...

No matter how you cut it, they're not "painted onto the plastic lens" as 
WF erroneously claims (no surprise there).

As elaich said, the louvers are either the metal ones that cover an LX-
style lens, or the plastic ones that are molded into the lens with 
actual texture.