I'm trying to figure out how to do my lights. What do you guys think? Picture 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5?



The red lights would go all the way across the toolbox.

 

I thought about puttin lights in my back bumper like that, what did you use to cut the holes ?

 

Me? I didn't mount any of mine yet. I just used tape to stick them to my toolbox to take pics. Plus mine are just surface mount. I imagine that for the oval ones though, that you could use an appropriate size hole saw to get the ends and then cut out the middle with a die grinder, sawzall, torch, plasma cutter, or whatever.

 

3 dont want to overdue it and i thinke the ovales are ugly

 

I'd go with #3

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How'd you do those lights on your front mud flaps?

 

I have no pictures but 4 dayliter with a wopie light on top of roof, 2 more running light witch are 6inch haligen munted in crome houseing, extra set of tail light mounted on toolbox, 7red and 4 amber on my flat bed, 4 work light and 5 work light that can be moved. that shoud be enoff light for one truck sorry standard cab lights.

 

Way off on all of those explanations. We called them chicken lights back in the 70s and 80s because back then the first guys to put a lot of lights on their trucks were chicken haulers, mostly out of north west Arkansas. A lot of those trucks ran coast to coast and they sure looked great at night. There were others that had lights but on the CB they all were called chicken haulers if they had a lot of lights. Hence the term "chicken lights". Now the term has came to mean almost any marker lights other than stock. Gotta love the look of them but make sure you install them correctly.
Not sure where those other explanations came from but I was there on the road at that time.
Stay safe out there.
Ken

 

Heres my lights, I still want to get some below the doors and along the bottom of the truck.

 

Some updated pics.......

 

Slowly getting the lights installed. Here's what I've got so far.