Trivia week continues!

[JHertzman@xxxxxxx]

In AD7-063 Mark Battley confirms that for the GT Veloce the parking lights and
bumpers are different on US cars and rest-of-world cars, and asks

"Are the USA parking lights attached to the bumper or the body? (it looks 
like the bumper on the pictures I've got) Presumably this means that the front
sheet metal is different too: the USA versions can't have the rectangular
cutouts for the turn signals: Are different part numbers listed for the front
panels? And why??... they raised the front ride height to make the front
headlights  higher but put the turn signals lower....???"

The parking lights on the US coupes are mounted below the bumpers and are the
same undistinguished generic-looking units used on the US Alfetta coupes,
sedans, and Sport Sedans and on the GTV6, on all of which they are hung
beneath the bumpers with very simple "L" brackets. Different part numbers are
indeed listed for the fenders as well as for the bumpers. The US 1750 and 2000
Berlinas had a much more refined unit attached directly to the bottom of the
bumpers, while the European cars through that period had parking lights
attached to the bodywork above the bumpers or, in the case of the Berlina,
integrated into the upper form of the bumper.

With the European Alfetta sedan and the Giulia Nuova the lights moved below
the bumper, but this could not have been to match US requirements, as the US
Alfetta used a different bumper, and we did not get the Nuova.- 

"And why" is a good question.

There may be different lens color requirements for front parking lights, amber
in the US and clear in Europe, but surely Carello could have squirted colored
glass (or plastic) into the existing molds used for the European lights. 

Reason? I'll pass. Anybody?

John 

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