I pretty much feel the same way, but in this case I have torch red bird and the red tail lights just blend in.. That’s why I also thought if the bezels were black that may be cool also.
I have a black TBird and I saw a one recently that partially painted his
headlights and tailights. Don't care for the weird rear spoiler he's got, but I do look like the painted lights to match the vehicle color. Though I wonder if that has any kind of endurance applying paint to plastic lights.
Since you mentioned it, My wife's torch red has lots of added chrome. The previous owner put it on and actually for me it's overdone, but in his memory we are leaving it as is. It was his 'Baby' and what he would have wanted. Besides it would be very hard to take it off, risking paint damage and it does get a lot of positive comments.
My personal view, red is the tbird color that can pull off a lot of
chrome more so than other colors, but yea he went a bit strong on it. The great thing about TBirds is you can go for the luxury visual style or sport visual style. Looks like he was going for the luxury style and went a bit on the overdone line. It still looks good, if I bought it that way, I would leave as is rather than ruining the paint taking it off like you mentioned.
My black bird, I'm going with the midnight theme. After doing extensive shopping, I landed on the TSW Silverstones black spoke. I hate losing the
Thunderbird logo center cap, but I really don't like the factory mag. The silverstone is mostly black with a
chrome lip for the rim ring. Just barely enough
chrome accent, just like my black bird. They will be installed next week. Here's a photoshop I did.
My neighbor came over while I was washing my bird, and I showed him this pic of the new wheels. He commented that my bird looks like a car Darth Vader would drive, lol.
