picture request, R tail lights

[juanbenae]

will you please?


thanks

[mph911]

[Jack Olsen]

On a widebody with a non-stock license plate cover:



More light in this one:

[Flieger]

Contrasting color

[Bootsy]

Contrasting colour on my 911 (although currently being changed to body colour)

[Dutchie]

[R_Builder]

Not sure why most folks put the split-colored lenses on the outside since most pictures of the factory R's that I have seen have them inboard. Love those chrome bases...

[TRE Cup]

perhaps it because the accepted position of the indicator is usually to the outside. Also some choose to use a clear portion half/ amber portion half for back up and turn signal; again the logical best seen position would be the outside.

Does anyone know what the original all red R unit held as far as bulb(s) was it two bulbs ? running and stop?

[Vintage Racer]

Wow, those are great pictures and information (the proper placement).

[Dutchie]

Does anyone know what the original all red R unit held as far as bulb(s) was it two bulbs ? running and stop?

On mine the red one only has one bulb and i use that one for braking. The amber/ red one i use for signal and running lights.
Best would be to use two bulb bases for both and use the red like you said for running and brakes the other for signal and reverse.
I don,t have reverse now and i miss it backing up the car in the garage.



Cheers,

Ed

[andyjboy]

Originally, the 911R used an amber/red dual bulb lamp inboard with the amber portion painted red - this lamp functioned as the stop & tail lamp.

They then used an all-amber (single bulb) lamp as the flasher.

Here's this set-up on my 911R-inspired car:

[TRE Cup]

There we are! that explains why the split lenses looked amber in one shot and red in another. Hella did not make a dual bulb red assembly, so Porsche had the amber part tinted

its all becoming very clear now ....
thanks andy- your car is spectacular!

[R_Builder]

+1 on all the good info! I kind of figured that folks were putting the split lenses on the outside for visibility's sake. Makes good sense to me. At one point, I thought about going with dual split lenses (one amber/red and one amber/white) to cover all 4 functions, but ultimately decided to drop the reverse lights. So, I am putting my money on a "stock" look (euro also, I suppose). I have a little ways to go on this, as you can see in the picture. One day at a time...