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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire
Agree about e_r video clip--fantastic--there's even an appearance by Mullen Bluett...
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As for parking lights coming on with headlights-- I don't think there was any law against it--it was standard practice on foreign cars for years. Apparently it was mandated for US cars at the time of side marker lights. I always heard that it was for visibility in case a main lamp burned out. A similar edict inspired by foreign standards, one requiring parking-light lenses to be amber or to have amber bulbs behind clear lenses, came down for or during the 1963 model year. Aftermarketers sold amber lenses so owners could update their older parking lights if they wanted to. |
I've always wondered about that; I've noticed that some late 50s American cars have amber parking lights/ front turn signals, when they were usually white. I didn't think that maybe they were retrofitted later.
Actually, in Europe (and most other countries, I believe), parking lights can only be white, and it's the turn signals that can only be amber. In North America, parking lights may be white or amber (often with the turn signal doing double duty), and rear turn signals may be red or amber. But outside of North America, rear turn signals must be amber.
My cousin from Australia, when he first visited us in the US, thought it was bizarre that cars could have red rear turn signals, but what really tripped him out were the blinking brake lights that can act as rear turn signals in North America (usually often seen on American cars, but I've noticed some newer Audis have blinking brake lights also; obviously a feature only found on those sold in the US).