Who We Are

Joel McWaters is the president, and CTO of Custom Classic L.E.D. Lighting. He is a full-time Senior Printed Circuit Board Design Engineer in Southern California. He has been a designer for seven years. He owns a 1967 Chevy C-10 truck he bought in 2000, from an older gentleman in Cathedral City, Ca. He had wanted to “get an old truck and fix it up, so he wouldn’t have to have a car payment.” He had owned a 1967 Ford in high school, but after looking at pictures in trying to decide what to get, he determined that the ’67 or ’68 Chevy truck would be his project.

Ryan Reum is the CEO, and Founder of Custom Classic L.E.D. Lighting. Three Years Navy, MR took Machinist A-School and graduated third in class behind experienced machinist. He came up with the whole LED insert idea while coming back from an R/C Monster Truck Race. In 1994 he first bought a '68 Short step from his uncle in Montana and restored it. Next moved onto a '72 4X4 Blazer and converted it to a 2wd. Next he bought a Factory '72 2wd blazer in Bend Oregon. Which is never to be parted with, and is current project. And the first '72 with Custom Classic 67-72 Fleetside LED inserts.

How We Got Started

On August 30 2002, Joel decided to ask this fellow board members on the 67-72chevytrucks.com message board about L.E.D. taillights that weren’t just small replacements found at any auto parts store. Being a circuit board designer, he knew he would be able to possibly make a set for his truck, but decided it would be better all the way around if someone sold some that were really nice. No one had any idea whether this was something that was being produced.

Ryan posted that he made them by hand. Interested in finding out about his design, he contacted him about them. From there, Custom Classic L.E.D. Lighting was born. They started from there with ’67 - ’72 Chevy/GMC fleetside taillights. They setup a free website on tripod, and began to sell them by word of mouth.

Realizing that they would be in development and ideas up to their eyebrows, but capital would be short, they partnered with D2M Technologies. With D2M taking over the manufacturing, assembly, and shipping, the CCLL boys were able to get back to new ideas, and new products. That means more cool ideas, and having them to you faster!

Our Commitment to our Customers

We want our customers to know that we care about them, and we will support our products. If you buy something from us, we want you to be not just satisfied, but happy. If you have bought a product from us, and you have a problem with it, we will make it right, period. If you don’t like the way they look, or they don’t light up enough for you, or are too bright, let us know, and we’ll fix it, or give you a refund, in exchange for our non-damaged product back. That’s it, if you aren’t happy, we aren’t happy.