Tail lights

With great hesitation, I finally worked on Bella's taillights.  Despite the many detailed guides on how to refurbish the old Hehr taillights and the teardrop marking lights on Airforums and especially this one on vintageairstream.com it seemed still a little intimidating. There are 2 products that helped me greatly with the job and these are: 3M 2229 tape to seal between light housing and the trailer and 1/8" gasket sheets from your favorite automotive store to cut gaskets to seal between the light housing and the lens.
The '58 trailer had a little different wiring too. Bella actually had a red and a brow wire for left and right turning, respectively, a green wire for the running lights and a white wire for ground. So far so good with modern 7-way plugs. But Bella had also a black wire fro breaking lights not known in modern TV's. It took me some reading on Airforums to learn that you simple ignore the wire or, if you want to use that second filament in the 1176 bulbs combine the black wires from the lights with one of the active wires.
   

Doesn't look so good...

Amazingly, the light housing cleans up nicely after some sanding with 120 and 400 sanding paper. Just Rustoleum spray-painted. The Chrome rings and the lenses polished out beautiful with a little NuShine C9