check out these 180sx taillights

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@spd-dmn

No.

The lights are off and what you see is just the retroreflectors shining from the flash.

Exactly.

I remember wondering that same thing when I was first into these tails.

One site actually does custom LED’s to make the rings literally glow:
http://clearcorners.com/products/nissan/240sx1/r_hbtail/