Back Up Lights for 2002?

[Avanti2002]

Anyone know the origin of the 2002 back up light assembly and lenses?

[AvantiR1]

No clue...sorry

[John Hull]

Same year pontiac firebird

[Gunslinger]

The backup lights on my '02 say Nissan on them with a part number.

[plwindish]

Was your 02 from the Nippon factory??

[Gunslinger]

The front side marker lights say Ford on them...from a mid-'90s Taurus. I read in an interview with Jim Bunting who fabricated the AVX cars the '02 Avanti was based on, that the headlight buckets were from a Jaguar. I guess between Jaguar, Ford and Nissan the Avanti is a truly international automobile.

[J Boyle]

For limited production cars, lights wee always a problem issue. In the pre-LED days, the tooling costs for the bucket and lens were a huge hurdle.

There is an 80s Aston Martin...the Virage, IIRC, that uses the taillight assembly from an 82-on VW Scirocco. And there are plenty of other cases...like the Ford GT 40s (the 60s race cars, not the 2005 production Ford GTs) using early Corvair taillights. Or the Shelby Mustangs using T-Bird units.

Edited October 30, 2013 by J Boyle