After reading a post a little further down, don't know where it is now, I ahd a brain storm. The third brake light! TWIZTID int he third brake light cut out of vinal. Would the vinal get beatup from the heat? Is this illagle to do? Mod your 3rd brake light? I meen I am going to be drawing a lot of attention to myself driving my 86 when I get it back as it is. Don't need to be pulled over everyday. The car is going to be sick sounding and fast verry fast. Hell I meen I was going to get TWIZTID on my front windshield, but hell all people are going to be seeing is tail lights. so why not right? I have the 3rd brake light on my hatch glass. Any help if it is illegle would be great. Damn I can't spell to great today.

Don't take my advice as legal counel, but i would wager that moding a 3rd brake light isn't illegal-- it's a 3rd brake light. Some people (like myself) dont even have such a light, so i don't see how it could be illegal to mod something that isn't required by law in the first place.
As far as the heat & vinyl goes, i believe you are talking about the mod in the Tech Arcitles; that person used the vinyl stickers as a stencil-- put them on, then spray painted the light. When it dried he took the stickers off, so the PONTIAC actually light up-- much easier to see than a red light with pontiac darkened within it. (or TWIZTID for that matter.)

The tech article can be found here

I wasn't actually talking about that. I was talking get a solid piece of vinal and have the letters cut out of it. I can get vinal pretty cheap compared to most places. I would give them my idea dn they would do it. Would the vinal hold up. I guess there isn't much heat involved since the 3rd brake light isn't on all the time. I guess I will try both. I have 2 camaros.

I tought it was a federal law theat manufacturers were required to put third brake lights on ALL vehicles starting model year 1986. That is why the 86's third brake light looks like it was a last minute mod, it was (as far as I know from what I have read)

Mark

I am not sure the laws either but when i bought my 91 z28 I had 4 of the lights out in my third brake light. I had it inspected and the guy would not pass it. He said it had to be functional. This was in MD.

hmm that's interesting. I bet if you took the thing completely off he would have passed you though..... typical

Anyways you could always just run down to your local inspection station and ask. May be your best bet. This would also account for your local state laws.

From what I understand, and I have verified w/ the state transportation laws, as long as it isn't completely blacked out, hence, GTS blackouts or VHT Niteshade, it legal. I'd show you the one I did, but no camera...go figure. And also, as far as the vinal is concerned, it worked fine for me, as a safety precaution, I sprayed a clear laquer over it to seal it from moisture, and that seems to work great. I hope this helps.

Hmm, I took the whole assembly off, never had a problem. Tell you the truth I dont think anyone even notices it being gone. I've passed three inspections with it off so... I dunno.

Helps a lil from what everyon is saying. I'll have to experiment with a couple of different things