Whenever I take a car to the body shop, I take the tail lights and license plates with me when I go, so they can't drive it on the streets. Those guys are animals.

During the late '70s and early '80s I had a friend who was a manager of a body shop that catered to the specialty car dealers here. So, I got to "test" most all the exotic street cars of the time. Great fun that was.

This is how I learned to take the tail lights with me.