Lexus SC Dia De Los Muertos Lowrider Inspired Tail Lights
Channel: Organized Garage Status
Date: 2019-02-07

The last installment to our Dia De Los Muertos Lowrider inspired build. Doesn't mean we're gonna fall off short of anything.

When we were building the headlights, we had no idea what direction we were going with on the tail lights. OGClient Sheer, originally wanted to work on the 92-94 tail lights. Although the lenses were clear colored, and not fluted diffused on the inside, the biggest hindrance was the reverse diffuser dead in the middle of the lens. We had to scratch 2-3 designs because of this, so we decided to work on the 97+ tail lights instead. Although the 97+ lens had a pinkish natural hue to it, it's a sacrifice we had to deal with to work on a clear lens setup.

The theme with sugar skulls, cerulean blue and gold had to continue and flow with the headlights and the overall style and design of the SC and I still had no idea where to begin. As weird and as creepy as it may sound, it all came to me in a dream (true story), I literally woke up the next day and started creating drafts on photoshop of the design.

The pattern for the park lights was inspired by the Toyota FT1 concept car tail lights and inverted to better fit the shape of the SC tail lights. The three dash in the middle of the park lights are the brake lights and a continuity of the three stripes of the front amber turn signal lights. Since the 97+ tail lights had chrome trim, we decided to turn it gold to to follow through with the concept, masked it, and painted the surround black for a "framed" effect, all this after cutting and removing the original light diffusers and left with nothing but the thin surround. Here's the crazy part, OGClient Sheer, was determined in putting in gold in one way or another, and since this was a lowrider inspired build, after studying thousands of photos and designs, and being a huge fan of the lowrider scene since as far as I can remember, I couldn't leave out one of the most artistic details to any lowrider paint scheme, which is the gold leaf. Usually, I do the patterns with vinyl wrap so I had the crazy idea in my dream to use the gold leaf instead, and outline it with the same cerulean blue pinstriping we did in the headlights. The last concept we didn't hit was the sugar skulls. Since the tail lights were long and narrow, it didn't sit right with me to just put a huge skull in just one side, and putting a lot would clash with the overall styling we just did, which is why I decided to bust out my good ol' vinyl cutter and use the same skull crossover pattern we used for the high beam lens etching, and create a silhouette instead with white vinyl for the turn signal lights. It wasn't quite sugar skull enough in plain white, so we back it up with color changing strip all throughout the bottom which also creates a very nice fade out of all the shapes and patterns.

All the features are also bluetooth controlled via a phone app provided by Morimoto and Zleds. I mean, what's the purpose of spending this much on a world of art just to toggle through the features with a switch? Overall this entire build has taken 7-8 months to complete. At this time, I'm still organizing all the wiring with wire looms and labeling each plug to match where they plug to for a slightly easier install.

This build and style is definitely not for everyone, certainly not for a daily drive car, and without a doubt not a run in the mill build. Everything about this build is very specific to what our client wanted and the concept we were going for. But for what its worth, this is a great testament that for the most part, there's really no limit to what we can do.

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