I've done a small mod on my car and the results look like this:
http://s17.photobucket.com/albums/b91/ExoSennsOan/?action=view¤t=06-25-10_1209.mp4REALLY crappy cell phone camera, laggy and skippy so it's not consistent at all like it is in person.
Another crappy cell pic to top it off:
Tinted tails. As you can see in the video above, light shines through perfectly fine.
Edit: Storm news is now irrelevant since it passed without so much as moving the basketball laying outside, which I'm pretty happy about.