I understand it’s not everyone’s job to look at cars online. That said, there are days when I feel like I’ve seen it all. Hellcat swaps are only cool for so long until you get bored! Even the innovative can feel a little too familiar depending on what it is. But when I saw these stained glass taillights on an old Chevy Van, I was floored. This, my friends, is customization.
They’re the work of Lindsey Wonder, a tattooer and stained glass maestro who’s been doing this for a few years now. She started creating sun catchers and the like back in 2017 when a friend suggested she try her hand at taillights. Those were a little past her comfort zone at first, considering the precision required to create them. Because they’re in a fixed frame with no room to grow or swell over time, they have to be just right from the start.
“Fast forward to 2020, I made a set of tail lights for my 1984 Chevy Van,” Wonder told me. “I posted them to my Instagram and pretty quickly had people reaching out about custom sets for their vans. I decided it would be best to run them on my van to make sure they’re roadworthy before I started taking orders, and ran them for a full year, almost daily driven. From there, it grew pretty rapidly.”
